Apollo Armando

Hello yes this is Chet. I animate things and play games and make music.
He/Him

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[Apollo Armando @ApolloArmandoX]

Is it too late for #PortfolioDay ? Oh well. Here's the new reel.

Sound on, lock in, enjoy.

Motion graphics, design, direction. Open for work

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

GOP Senator Ted Cruz responds to Rep. Andy Ogles’ anti-gay tweet, “Homosexuality has no place in America”:

“For all of recorded history homosexuals have been part of humanity, and I got to say, I’m quite libertarian by nature. I think the behavior of consenting adults is their business.”

[Skooch @Skooch]

CEO: alright gang! we've lost 90% of our player base over the last two years. we gotta do something big and fun to get them back! any ideas?

Comically Large Slack Jawed Chimera Homunculus Barely Capable of Conceiving Thought: ai video contest

CEO(knowing that the creature has mere hours left to live): you know what.. *choking back tears* let's do it.

[okazakitomohiro @oo_kk_aa]

ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています

[𝓐𝔂𝓸✯ @shefwayo]

when someone is laughing & socializing instead of taking their turn at the board game we're playing

[JAKE @guiltyjake]

Sol's basic combo.

[agatha v @ketsuktiamx]

o visual irretocável de a nobreza do amor, pelas lentes de pedro pinho. 🫀

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

The same people who called the Biden administration tyrannical because they were asked to wear masks and get vaccinated during a global pandemic are telling you to "just comply" when masked officers try to illegally drag you from your vehicle.

[SNK GLOBAL @SNKPofficial]

🤷🏻‍♂️

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Remember this

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY HELL: The YouTuber “jOuRnALiSt” who became famous for Minnesota daycare centers looks like a deer in the headlights as soon as he is asked the most basic journalistic question. This is embarassing:

SHIRLEY: They came after me, they came after my family. They doxed my entire family.

RYAN: How did they come after you? Be specific.

SHIRLEY: Well, they tried to come after me. They tried to debunk all my whole entire story... They then...

RYAN: Who's they?

SHIRLEY: The... AII the news...

RYAN: Just get more specific.

SHIRLEY: CNN

RYAN: CNN, who within CNN?

SHIRLEY: CBS... Ummm...

RYAN: Who's the reporter?

SHIRLEY: I: l don't even know her name because she's irrelevant. Nobody knows who she is.

[just matt @questionableway]

now ask how many republicans would be willing to stop making homophobic jokes to keep a friendship

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

Lol, the Whitest Kids you know just uploaded this to their youtube page.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

92 People have been arrested in conjunction with the fraud in Minnesota. They’ve been investigating and prosecuting since 2014. You don’t know this Maga because you live in an echo chamber.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

I enjoyed your NYT op-ed, but I have some disagreements.

First, I disagree with the way you equate the left and right's "identity politics," as you put it. At its best, the left's version of "identity politics" is a liberal corrective. It's rooted in the civil rights, feminism, and gay rights movements. Each of these is about making good on the Enlightenment's ideals and liberal principles you espoused in your piece.

The right's "identity politics" is the opposite. It's about exclusion, not inclusion. Since it's about bloodline ethno-nationalism, it's fundamentally illiberal. To equate the two as "identity politics" misses this critical distinction, which feels vital to your piece. I would argue that the left's project is necessary in an unequal society that already has racist and sexist structures built in, as well as the legacies left by previous illiberal eras. Regardless, whether you believe in structural racism, your piece obscures some important moral distinctions between these two projects. This seems essential for an op-ed about liberalism.

Second, I've seen many non-white conservatives denounce the rise of Groypers. But where was this energy when the racism, sexism, and homophobia were targeted at Blacks, Latinos, gays, women, and other minorities? They were told to shut up; that this was "woke ideology" gone too far. Just yesterday, the unveiling of the Barbara Rose Johns statue, which replaced the Robert E. Lee statue, was widely criticized here as "wokism." Is that not a natural and logical step to creating the kind of society you said you want to see?

Conservatives have mocked or minimized these concerns and appealed to free speech. But when the attacks are targeted at Indian or Jewish conservatives — which I also think are wrong — suddenly "people need to speak out." I agree that people should speak out against this, but I would also like to see consistency.

My third disagreement, related to the above, is that you treat "American ideals" as uncontroversial and settled. I agree with certain conservatives about one thing: some of our founders would be shocked if they were suddenly dropped in 2025 and learned that their words resulted in a society where Blacks are free, women can vote, and LGBTQ+ people are in government. The liberal ideals you espoused, and I ultimately share, have always been contested and renegotiated through political struggle. The Constitution itself is a record of this process (e.g., 13th and 19th amendments).

Yet, in this last election, you supported Donald Trump, who came into power by stoking white resentment. At the very least, he does not always share your view of what it means to be an American (the very title of the piece). You ask conservatives to disavow the Groypers and "speak out," as you see censorship as an unjustifiable solution to this problem. But have you spoken out about Trump's rhetoric about Somali citizens? Or when conservatives like Randy Fine denigrate Muslims? We are in an ongoing negotiation about what it means to be an American. You ask people to speak out against anti-Indian American hatred, but I wish you would do the same for others.

[nyara @nyaraVT]

There is no “left-wing grift”

There is no left-wing equivalent to:
> being racist and raising $200k
> saying “God :)” in a shitty essay and getting state recognition
> pretending to be a detransitioner to sell anti-trans books
> exploiting the ignorance of uneducated people

[Max Steele @maxasteele]

For the Gen Z folks out there, this kinda stuff is what it was like all day every day when Obama was president.

[Zane Little @zanelittlemusic]

durrrr chatgpt

[Apollo Armando @ApolloArmandoX]

@SW_Paladin On my actual half-birthday, too!