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Adobe Guy. Former Technical Director and Animation vfx Supervisor at CBS: "Tooning Out the News", “Our Cartoon President", "Late Show" specials, the film "In and Of Itself". Ask me anything about After Effects.

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Not yet: Trump will just pardon her. Need to wait until he's gone.

06.03.2026 15:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Frank Oz called me a motherf*cker, but he meant it as a positive thing.

05.03.2026 04:18 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Oh... oh my.

27.02.2026 20:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where the heck did you find this? (That's me in the frame grab)

20.02.2026 02:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This was a fun thing to encounter in my feed today.

19.02.2026 18:48 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, thanks! I just wanted to drop in and let you know that I'm still alive, and working on the After Effects team.

19.02.2026 18:45 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

In our area turkeys only get aggressive during mating season. A motivated male will stop traffic. Otherwise they are shy/docile.

30.01.2026 19:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm beginning to think the 49ers may not win this game

18.01.2026 03:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let's throw in NJ for good measure... I love a good Danish

17.01.2026 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Texans' offense could have stayed home—their DEFENSE outscored Aaron Rogers 12-6

13.01.2026 04:12 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Texans' DEFENSE has outscored Aaron Rogers by 12-6. Add in the offense and it's a 30-6 game.

13.01.2026 04:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats!

12.01.2026 00:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The official Maffitt New Years card for 2026, illustrated by actual human artist Pedro Delgado. Happy New Year! May we all strive to find peace and joy in these complicated times.

01.01.2026 03:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

READY TO ROLL OUT!

29.12.2025 19:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ready for Christmas Walkies

25.12.2025 20:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our little Christmas cartoon just hit 1 million views on YouTube #theLateShow #Colbert #Offerman #Elmo

23.12.2025 18:25 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Bogoroditse Devo | Rachmaninoff Vespers | Robert Shaw Festival Singers
Bogoroditse Devo | Rachmaninoff Vespers | Robert Shaw Festival Singers YouTube video by allisonlowehuff

I mean, listen to this piece

21.12.2025 14:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Stephen Colbert Takes Aim at 'Jag Bag' Donald Trump in Animated Christmas Video Stephen Colbert aired an animated holiday-themed clip taking aim at Donald Trump.

Our little cartoon last night made Rolling Stone! Lifetime achievement unlocked:

19.12.2025 17:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Delivered our 8th and presumably final Late Show Holiday Special this evening. Tune in tonight for some heart-warming hilarity!

19.12.2025 03:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We Interviewed Rob Reiner for Tooning Out the News a couple years ago. The cast was nervous to improvise comedy with such a legend, but he leaned in to every joke, made everyone comfortable and made everything funnier. May he and Michele rest in peace, and may his family find comfort.

15.12.2025 04:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Want!

14.12.2025 03:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He was also an extraordinarily-hardcore alcoholic, who had to travel with handlers who would try to prevent him disappearing on multi-day benders when he toured in various theater roles. A fascinating fellow.

The book "My Thoughts be Bloody" is a great bio of the Booth brothers.

26.11.2025 15:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We used to dine at the Old 76 House, where Andre was imprisoned, which is now festooned with Andre and Benedict Arnold engravings (with Arnold's hung upside down). We also visited the nearly farm where Andre was hanged, and which briefly served as Washington's headquarters.

24.11.2025 23:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In the pre-internet days SIGGRAPH was the only way to see a collection of this stuff in a full theater with people who shared the same interests. Now everything is online and the sense of shared discovery is long gone.

23.11.2025 13:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A lot of the presentations were very technical, but occasionally something magical would slip into the program... and this was definitely one of those times.

23.11.2025 13:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Electronic Theater was always a popular ticket in the 80s and 90s, a chance to see cool new techniques, renderers, algorithms etc. Flocking! Displacement! Physics! Technology was moving so fast back then.

23.11.2025 13:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It was thrilling, miraculous, like nothing else that audience had ever seen. 30 years ago today the final film, "Toy Story", was released to the public, and changed the world of animation forever.

22.11.2025 22:45 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The scene featured little plastic army men, on a serious reconnaissance mission to investigate a child's birthday presents.
I was there. 2/3

22.11.2025 22:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

At Siggraph 1994 (an annual trade show devoted to computer graphics), a little company called Pixar—whose main claim to fame was a 1989 Oscar-winning short called "Tin Toy"—debuted the first few minutes of an ambitious new project. 1/3

22.11.2025 22:44 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They can squeeze into very tiny spaces, so good luck!

20.11.2025 00:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0