Issue #111 | August 9th, 2026 The Prince of Egypt Hey Reader 👋 Something happened this week. I got asked to work on a production. As an animator. A real gig, real film, real studio. I saw the teaser. And I said no. I've been sitting with that ever since, because saying no to an animation job in 2026 - when so many animators I know are refreshing their inbox every morning hoping for exactly that message - felt genuinely strange. But here's the thing. It also felt like relief. The honest...
11 days ago • 7 min read
Issue #110 | August 2nd, 2026 Hey Reader 👋 I'm writing this from my living room. It's an absolute mess. There's a couch, the floor isn't even finished, and I'm just sitting in the middle of it all. Check out the picture below. 😅 That's life these days. Can't wait to get my studio back!! 🙃 Anyway. Quick update on the Citron launch. It went really well. I sold a good number of copies and made roughly a month's salary in one launch. Which, yeah, is amazing. But here's the thing… the money wasn't...
18 days ago • 8 min read
Issue #109 | July 26th, 2026 Hey Reader 👋 So. I launched my first product ever this week. 🍋 Citron. My graph editor for After Effects. It's out there in the world now, and people are actually using it. 🔥 Here's the thing nobody tells you: building the extension was the easy part. Seriously. The code, the UI, the logic, the thing I was actually scared of… that went fine. What crushed me was everything around it. Hosting the product. Setting up checkout. Wiring it all together. Bug report...
25 days ago • 10 min read
Issue #108 | July 19th, 2026 Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson Hey Reader 👋 Quick heads up before we dive in - the intro runs long this week. There was just a lot I wanted to talk about. So settle in for that part, and the usual Spotlight, Job Fair, and Random Stuff are all waiting for you right after. Grab a coffee. This week was weirdly good. Focused. The kind of week where you actually watch the work move. I've got a couple of films to deliver to a client, and here's the small thing that...
about 1 month ago • 10 min read
Issue #107 | July 12th, 2026 Wall-E Hey Reader 👋 What a week. Full. Intense. A little bit rough, honestly. But the good kind of rough. We finally moved into our house. Except "moved in" is generous. We're living in the middle of the dust. All of us sleeping in one bedroom on the bottom floor, pushing to finish the paintings so we can lay the floor and finally start bringing in furniture. It's basically camping. In a big house. 😅 We'll manage. It happened. That's the part that matters. And...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
Issue #106 | July 5th, 2026 Song of the Sea Hey Reader 👋 Quick heads up - I've barely touched a computer this week. Because as you're reading this, we're moving into the new house. Today. Right now. And I'll be honest with you… it's not done. The paint isn't finished. The floor isn't finished. The whole place is still one big dust cloud. If it were just me and my wife, we'd shrug and figure it out. But doing this with a two-year-old running around? Different story. 😅 So here's the plan - park...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Issue #105 | June 28th, 2026 Loving Vincent Hey Reader 👋 First things first. Last week I told you it was a rough one. And then my inbox filled up with your emails. People I've never met, taking time out of their day to send kind words, telling me to keep pushing… I haven't replied to all of them yet. But I will. I reply to every single email I get, that's a promise. So if you wrote to me, thank you. Truly. It meant more than you know. 😊 And maybe it's connected, maybe it's just timing, but...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Issue #104 | June 21th, 2026 The Iron Giant Hey Reader 👋 Okay. I'm going to be honest with you guys. I was about to dictate this intro… and I couldn't do it. I just couldn't speak. I was so exhausted, so close to the edge of burning out, that the words wouldn't come. And then my wife called. Thank god she did. We talked. She talked some sense back into me. And somewhere in that call I got enough air back in my lungs to go write the film review you'll read below - and now I feel good enough to...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Issue #103 | June 14th, 2026 Kodama (tree spirits) from Princess Mononoke Hey Reader 👋 Some dates in life just… pull everything toward them. Like gravity. Right now, that date is July 1st. That's when we move into the house. Our century old house. The one I've been renovating with my own two hands - and I'll be honest with you, it is not going to be perfect. Not even close to done. Here's the thing about me. I'm not a handyman. At all. My dad was - he could fix anything. But for some reason...
2 months ago • 8 min read