katie mitroff

katie mitroff

@troffie.bsky.social

(they/she) sketch dump director + storyboard artist + character designer for animation

1.4K followers256 following216 posts

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you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

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I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

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Keep spreading the word and donating if you can! We're halfway there and we just need to go just a bit more to save his stuff! His best friend Rob is planning on compiling some Bob's art into a potential book to honor his memory n legacy, but only if he's able to save his work first.

Michael Ruocco@michaeljruocco.bsky.social

The late great Bob McKnight's artwork is at risk of being seized and destroyed if something isn't done about it. His dearest friend and mentee Rob Griggs has set up a GoFundMe to help save his property, including his extensive art archives. Bob LOVED animation and it's history, help preserve it!

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Hi friends! this is still moving through the US Congress. It’s basically an anti-trans censorship bill disguised as “protecting children” (and its worded so vague, a corgi butt could be “obscene”) You wanna do something for #TDOV ? Call your reps. Call for all your trans friends 🤍🩵🩷

rachel elliott@okieelliott.bsky.social

Hello Friends! There is a nationwide book banning bill in US House of Representatives. If you love queer people, books, librarians, teachers, or good ole fashioned freedom of speech, please CALL your rep today. More info in the pics, and you can read from this script: 5calls.org/issue/federa...

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My good friend Jesse Balmer has put together a book of his work. Go pick up a preorder. It’s gorgeous. He’s worked as an artist on adventure time and many other shows but his Personal work is singular. Grab it here www.harpyharpy.com

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Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

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Hello! It's been a year and some change since I was laid-off from my previous job, and I'd love a new one. My name is Steve and I have 7 years of experience in the animation industry as a background artist and illustrator. I've worked on shows like Castlevania, and card games like MtG!

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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

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This whole interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is amazing, but we need to shout this from the rooftops. There's this message that abusive men like to send that's something like "yeah, I'm an abuser, but I'm a strong man who can get things done." And no, he isn't.

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Yeah, I’m fresh off SMMA and available for work!! Let me work with YOU, baby. I would love to be back in a supervisor role but I’m open to anything related to story and design! Let’s make some weird, funny shit. I love cartoons, man. Let me back into an office, I’m sick of my apartment.

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So many art schools seem to be intent on their own destruction. If you follow the logical conclusion of embracing AI, what exactly are your graduates going to do when they are done? If your grads flop, how will you recruit more students to your program?

CalArts Students, Staff, Alumni - please join me and sign Say NO to A.I. at CalArts! Help CalArtians unite against Generative AI on campus! form.jotform.com/251146941917...

So excited to share that I’ve been working on this for the past year. It’s been such a tremendous honor 🥹 I love this story and I hope you will too!

Catsuka@catsuka.bsky.social

"Avatar: Seven Havens" new animated series (set after "Legend of Korra") is in production. deadline.com/2025/02/avat...