Kyle Samuels

✏️: NYC Animator 🎥: Storytime, skits, shorts 🔌: Check my site for blogs

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

Why you need to workout as an artist 🧵 1/

[Rose @WhimsyWithStyle]

NYC Ballot Proposal #5: VOTE NO
I need help with this one...
Now, the city is allowed to set money aside for economic downturns. If this ballot passes, they city will have to put 12% of the tax revenue into the fund. And, they will not need approval from the City Comptroller anymore…just a requirement to “consult.” Only the mayor and city council will have to approve. This will pass BEFORE they tell us how, which they won’t have to do until 2020. Also, the mayor would get permission to withdraw beyond the 50% limit if he has a “compelling” reason.
Again power is centralized with the mayor and city council who with just his judgement can take the whole fund. (And spend it on anti capitalist, anti American goals?)
#NYCBallotProposals @AFineBlogger
@barrymosk @Maria4Dist6 @VickieforNYC
@FamilyHarlem @moshespern @nyccommonsense
@CUNY_Prof @LattinaBrown @WestHarlm
@HikindDov @sarithaforny @NassauExec
@ResistNyc13 @JimWalden_esq @JasonMurilloNY
@SloanRachmuth @OneCityRisingNY @nyc_evsa
#VoteNoNYCBallotProposals

[Mirage @trymirage]

Now Claude and ChatGPT can natively create Premiere (.PRPROJ) and After Effects (.AEP) files.

We've added open-source converters to Tesseract, our creative suite for agents, to make it possible.

It works both ways. Bring your existing Adobe projects into Tesseract and let your agent pick up where you left off, or vice versa.

This is our first open-source release, and compatibility isn’t perfect yet. Create projects, tell us what breaks, or contribute a fix. Help us make Tesseract better for everyone.

Try now for free.

[Shebbie4nyc @Shebbie4nyc]

Do not listen to lobbyists!

Listen to other NYCers

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

"Music directly represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person."

—Aristotle

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

@romepix I miss this new york😞

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

📺 Commentary, BTS and gallery of this short available here:
https://t.co/JC3ZObcIeP

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

🎞️ Today’s short! “For The Love Of Pumpkin Spice”

The flavor of HATE!

[Drapers’ Guild @drapersgulld]

There are 2 million black millionaires in the US.

There are 122,000 millionaires in *all* of Africa combined.

There are 16x more black millionaires in the US than all of Africa combined.

That is underselling the point, roughly 60% of Africa’s millionaires are Arab or white.

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

https://t.co/kZnXZEwU1Y

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

New blog to end the summer

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

Something like this that:
-works on device
-can be selectively utilized at different phases
-can learn from a model sheet

Is probably going to be the most ethical and effective use of ai in animation

Will get massive performance gains for indy artists to compete with studios

[Knightama @knightama]

Another test of bringing a rough pencil test by the amazing Disney animator #MiltKahl up to today's standards using AI, in this case, #Seedance 2.5 on @dreamina_ai

What do you think? Do you think Milt would have embraced this technology?

[Ethan Nicolle @AXECOP]

This is obviously amazing. If you don’t love this you’re just mad. This is where ai shines when a talented artist does half the work and ai does all the stuff that required sweatshops in Korea.

[Joseph Hernandez @hernandezforny]

Want to hear something crazy?

New York is paying the salaries of the reporters who are supposed to be watching New York's government.

It's called the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (S.625 / A.2958), sponsored by Manhattan Democrat @bradhoylman and Saratoga Democrat @AMCarrieWoerner.

@GovKathyHochul put it in the 2024 state budget. It hands out up to $30 million a year to cover as much as HALF of newsroom salaries.

It's run by an agency that answers to the governor. And it expires in 2027, so the same politicians these papers are supposed to investigate get to decide whether the checks keep coming.

Think that won't affect coverage?

Nobody bites the hand that signs their paycheck.

And it doesn't stop there.

State law forces businesses to buy ads in "official" newspapers picked by politicians. NYC orders agencies to steer ad money to favored outlets.

Piece by piece, New York's press has become financially dependent on the people it's meant to hold accountable.

A watchdog on a leash isn't a watchdog at all. It’s a pet.

Give the tax credits to readers, not publishers, and make every dollar given to these papers public.

New Yorkers deserve a free press, not one funded by Albany.

Follow to bring fiscal sanity back to New York.

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

New compilation just in time for the fall

7 Funny Animated Spring Shorts To Watch This Fall
https://t.co/GfTRUVMwKv

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Charles Dickens making sure his youngest son is aware of why he gave him a Bible

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

@CoachDanGo Bed time is about 10:45 for me, but the rest is the same

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Repetitive negative thinking is linked to Alzheimer’s protein buildup in the brain.

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

📺 Commentary, BTS and gallery of this short available here:
https://t.co/4yyT3T511w

[Kyle Samuels @kylesartspace]

🎞️ Today’s short! “Someone’s Subway Story”

Enough is enough