Camacaw

Artist and Animator. Will do commissions if asked.

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#commissionsopen #artportfolio #characterdesign

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It has come to my attention this is called typography, not calligraphy.

I’m gonna do it this time I’m really gonna do it.

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Calligraphy practice for my future career as a ne’er-do-well street rogue

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Calligraphy practice for my future career as a ne’er-do-well street rogue

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Maybe the real psyop was the friends we made along the way

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@Thomasintokyo Just applied now, thanks!

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If I ever somehow do find a hint of clout I’m adding a cognitohazard to my next cartoon that filters my audience with a psychic human combustion wave.

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The scariest part of making an indie cartoon: the threat of dealing with the indie animation fandom.

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@datartbuddy Goodness. This could be a poster.

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Long term goal is stealing a stealth aircraft and rain down sacks of cryogenically frozen tomatoes over the west coast to instill a fear of God into theater kids.

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I have no mouth and I must squee

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Happy birthday U S of A. Let us celebrate by dropping a fat brapnuke on the British.

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@moonialin_ Average zoomer daily routine.

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The Get Along Gang had street cred.

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@PI_DyeYT Making one now. I’m doing this all on my own so there’s still a lot of steps to go.

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@emesan_desu Does this mean her bangs are really her mustache?

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Every day there’s a new generation-defining tragedy on my news feed and it gets forgotten in a week.

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@RoyCartoons Just sent mine, hope I’m not too late

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@SuriFox45 Sent!

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@Indi_niko How long is the pilot?

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@calmdown_robby It shows humility to go back and retool after negative reactions. Twitter will still find a way to trash even attempting but this should be something encouraged among creatives. Growth is a good thing.

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As someone that hopes to make an edutainment cartoon for kids one day, this thread is a very important read.

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Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

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Screw it. Atomic structure of Bisphenol A with election cloud orbitals. I don’t care anymore.