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purging AI slop from your feed with a human-made behind the scenes clip from exactly one year ago today ♥︎
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an early birthday tribute to jack kirby 💙
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Thing's Night Out, available at your nearest YouTube.
peter parker meets matt murdock (spider-man: the animated series - mcu dub)
Project422 Films as peter parker//spider-man
Stealthabotte as matt murdock//daredevil
animatic by diego reyes
no spoilers - what did you think about spider-man: brand new day? 🤟🏼🕸
happy men's mental health awareness month 💙
squeezing in a tiny soapbox before we call it wraps on the month of june;
it's been about half a year since this passion project dropped, and still, 'cathartic' might just be the best way to describe the entire process of working on "Thing's Night Out".
on the surface, it's seemingly simply about a big rock guy forced to pack up an old life and move on, but as those layers are slowly peeled back, you realize we've also unabashedly tackled themes of grief, and purpose, and found family/friendships, and unconditional love, all while navigating the overwhelming feeling of literally/metaphorically letting things go + making room for new, good things.
it wasn't about his appearance, and it wasn't about fearing his new identity, but rather focused on what that transitional period looks like for someone who isn't entirely ready.
ben grimm holds up a mirror to a lot of us who are scared to trade in the original great thing for a different great thing, and mourning that, feeling that, addressing that has never been more important.
if you ever do, i hope you're able to revisit this short film with a newfound sense of healing, enthusiasm, and excitement for wherever your journey takes you on next :) you don't have to carry all of it by yourself.
12/23/2025
it's [cookie crunching] time.
hey, thank you so much for watching "Thing's Night Out".
i'm still kinda pinching myself at the reaction; everyone's had such kind words to say, and i feel like the only response i have available is gratitude.
gratitude for you, my incomparable cast/crew, these fictional characters who've moved us so deeply, and for every person who believed in a little love letter to jack kirby from when it was just an idea all the way to its final credit.
it's been a helluva ride. i hope we didn't disappoint.
we'll see you on the next one ♥︎
"What time is it?"
Tonight, 7PM EST.
Dinner time meets clobberin' time, and you meet Curt.
thanks for being part of this journey... i hope you like it.
see you at the premiere 💙
"Keep the change."
..and now, a very choppy clip from "Thing's Night Out" that I put together in less than 2-minutes 💀
Before the short film goes live, I wanted to give you a quick taste (aha...) of the team dynamics headed into Sunday.
See the animated pizza flop in 4K, and join us for the rest of family dinner tomorrow night (December 21st) at 7PM EST, only on YouTube.
animation versus reference.
stop-motion animators (and even VFX artists) know there are only so many ways you can spice up a simple dialogue sequence, and far from last on the list is using pre-existing media (especially that of the few featuring a rare orange rock character) as inspiration or 1-to-1 recreation.
in this case, it was a no-brainer to use ebon moss-bachrach's incredible performance capture from the first steps trailer to communicate a similar idea in thing's night out.
hope you like it, and we'll see you sunday (dec. 21st) for family dinner :)
12/09/2025
It's a Fantastic Life.
As of last night, we officially locked a finished cut of "Thing's Night Out", which means promos are gonna be full steam ahead this week.
For one of the last bits of teaser material, here's the final carousel of stills from the short film before it becomes available to watch (be on the lookout for last-minute surprises 😉).
These past 4-months, from pre-production to post, have been a ridiculous rollercoaster ride-- though not one without its stress-led, sugar-fueled, and story-first scrutiny, kept afloat/patient by passion, producers (!!), espresso, and the most supportive messages one can receive (you know who you are, and I appreciate you very much ♥︎).
What seemed a dream frozen 3-years ago became something I was able to paint on a thawed out canvas with my eyes closed over the course of two seasons.
I've got handfuls of people to thank, with an overflowing amount of gratitude to go around (not limited to the help I was graced with in taking this love letter to Jack Kirby + Ben Grimm off the page and onto your little screen), but hardly enough time to express it all, so I'm hoping the finished product is sufficient in singing their praises.
This one's an ode to classic 2015 - 2018 stop-motions (an active choice to ditch mouth animations/shoot on two's with simplicity in-mind), as well as paying homage to 40s/50s/60s talkies in aesthetic/atmos (think Frank Capra/Sidney Lumet), but fingers-crossed, it also manages to do things within this tight-knit artform that have never been done before.
Maybe after you've seen it, you'll say, "nothing really happened"... or maybe after you've seen it, you can say, "everything really happens."
I haven't been this excited about a personal project in a very long time.
see you for family dinner on December 21st :)
Here's a new look at "Thing's Night Out".
During one of the their earliest Sunday dinners, the Fantastic Four set off on a more domestic expedition: packing up Ben Grimm's old apartment in preparation for a move into the Baxter Building.
The team, a friend from Yancy, and new life circumstances challenge the ever-lovin, blue-eyed Thing amidst his everlastin', black-holed woes of the inescapable and fast-moving concepts of change, grief, identity, and the present moment, all in a single night.
thank you for waiting 💙 this one's almost here :)
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