Chad Troftgruben

Freelance animator, screencaster, writer, father of The Huff and two cats, gamer, soulless ginger, progressive

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

After 3 years of work, I am excited to finally show what
I've been working on. This is based on a 20 year old film I made with a group of friends. It's a remake, plus more. But for now I will let the trailer speak for itself. Look forward to it dropping this coming spring!

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Thoughts from the US

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[Fernand R. Amandi @AmandiOnAir]

We should all be grateful Trump is alive, safe and well this morning.

We should also continue saying Trump is a grave danger to democracy that must be defeated peacefully at the ballot box.

We are a nation committed to democracy and reconciliation, not retribution and revenge.

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

I teamed up with @MohoAnimation to produce a new free course on Moho 14. If you want to learn the new features or need a refresher on the app, be sure to check it out! https://t.co/z1c8ioC5BG

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

Available now! Animating with Adobe Character Animator (2023 Edition)
Udemy: https://t.co/CRZ5kukgPj
Toon Files: https://t.co/8CRKSF1u1t

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

Terms:

📔 Only participants in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and EU are eligible to win a print book (you will need to provide your mailing address if you win)!
📔 The 5 winners will be picked randomly and results will be announced on February 7th🎉

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

Hey everyone! I hope you're having a great new year! @PacktPublishing and I are giving away 2 print copies and 3 ebooks of my book 'Real-Time Animation with Adobe Character Animator'. 🎉

Rules in the comments below!!

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

Rules to enter:

🖍 Follow me
🖍 Like & retweet the above tweet
🖍 Tag a friend who uses Character Animator and comment your favorite Character Animator feature, or a handy hack

Terms in the next reply.

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

For the past year I have been writing a new book that covers everything you need to know about Character Animator. I'm happy to say it's now officially up for sale! Learn how to animate in real-time using a webcam, microphone and much more! https://t.co/yruKdK24ux

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

THIS IS SO DOPE

[mayday.health @HealthMayday]

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[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

Ah insomnia and no access to work or entertainment. Good thing I have @RainierConnect to keep me company. Hey there. You’re not looking so good. You look sluggish and weak. Like sub 1mb weak. You doing ok?

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

@RainierConnect : question, how do I become a priority so that you will fix the asinine connection speeds I’ve had for a week? Three calls to your customer service revealed I’m not a priority. So here I am. Tell me what I must do.

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

@RainierConnect Sweet. Are you going to perform emergency main fence on my connection that’s been fucked for a week or are we not a priority as your tech staff claims?

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Americans want more sunshine and less depression. And while people in Washington state may have to change their clocks today, they’ve made it clear that Daylight Saving Time should be permanent.

This is a bipartisan issue we all can and should get behind. 🕑

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

KOTOR

[XBOX Canada @XboxCanada]

The year is 2003. You’ve just turned on your Xbox, what are you playing?

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

Telling me you are proudly unvaccinated is like telling me you're a drunk driver. You're not a patriot. You're not a freedom fighter. You're a menace.

[Chad Troftgruben @ctroftgruben]

Spent the past week working on this relic. An episode of Walk’n with Walken that was recorded in 2007 and forgotten about. Until now. I tried to make it feel like an old episode of the series with a “classic” style. Whole episode here: https://t.co/D2c1ztnoZy

[Seth Rogen @Sethrogen]

The notion that weed is a problematic “drug” is rooted in racism. It’s insane that Team USA would disqualify one of this country’s most talented athletes over thinking that’s rooted in hatred. It’s something they should be ashamed of. Also if weed made you fast, I’d be FloJo.