Stephen Leonard

I make cartoons (DWTV, CN, Nick Jr) and chocolate. Contact: [email protected]

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

My new unsolicited Jetsons spinoff animatic is live! After the pitch was turned down (but positively received) I decided to make a short pilot anyway. Watch and hopefully enjoy! https://t.co/Ghh3Ci3b3n
https://t.co/MnYgxufNYS

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

No threat to humans.... yet

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: For the first time, AI has designed complete viral genomes, creating 16 functional viruses that infect bacteria and pose no threat to humans, per the BBC.

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@toonholechris Primetime airplane

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@LukeBarnett And another friend who has no kids will invite you to a party that starts at 8pm.

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

So now we know what the FIFA guy got in exchange for cancelling Balogun's red card. There's always something.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump wants to nominate FIFA boss Gianni Infantino for UN secretary-general following World Cup, per NYP

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

ANNOUNCEMENT:

Any U.S. Citizen that wants to cheer on Belgium tonight I’ll be hosting a 9th green at 9 watch party for the match. Please dress nice. Go Belgium!

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

U-S-A!!! ⚽️-⚽️-⚽️

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@LukeBarnett We're getting hosed

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@Lowtwait Looks awesome! Nice work.

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@ShermCohen Just watched that episode with my daughter this weekend on MeToons TV! She's starting to like the old cartoons.

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

RT @ABC7: California residents have the opportunity to get into California State Parks for free the rest of the year. Gov. Gavin Newsom ann…

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

OPEN WIDE FOR SOME SOCCER!!!!⚽️

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@LukeBarnett Extreme opinions = engagement. It's sad. Twitter was more fun 10 years ago when everyone just made jokes about everything and laughed together.

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

Starting the process of turning a few of my IP's, as they say in the biz, into kids books.

Cartoons are more fun, but trying this out for a minute to give new life to stuff I spent a crap load of time on already.

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

During exposition scenes I always ask "What are they physically doing?" Characters should have an actual task they're doing, with mini conflicts, to develop character and make the exposition feel less force fed.

[Jamie Nash @Jamie_Nash]

A lot of scripts hit page 3 and suddenly everyone’s eating breakfast while explaining backstory.

A strategy I often suggest: start in the middle of a different story — a smaller conflict that organically reveals character/world/exposition before the real story interrupts it.

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@JosephKahn I like that in cartoons as well. Music can be the best sound effects, like Tom and Jerry.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

I've noticed all the same stuff. Insightful interview.

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

The Controversial Filmmaker Speaking Truth About Hollywood’s DEI Problem. (That's me) Here's an interview with me at @FilmThreat about the state of Hollywood. https://t.co/lbBQMAxumD via @FilmThreat

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@dylanhking This is all great! Nice work.

[Stephen Leonard @GiantPancake]

@philiplord And RIP North Miami location on Biscayne