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Watch DOOMSCROLLING by recent pod guests @santithellama and @joezappulla on @nobudge! You can find it on THE ANIMATOR’S ANIMATIONS 2026 playlist in my linkinbiooooooooooooo by @joezappulla

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We may be in Month 2 of 2026, but @santithellama, @joezappulla, and I are still feeling the new year’s energy in TAF’s first ever two-part episode! Relive the feelings of optimism that January 2nd gifted as your resolutions start to lose meaning, like the thumbs-up react on that text message you sent.

Watch their film DOOMSCROLLING on @nobudge: A young man talks himself through a panic attack. In DOOMSCROLLING, Santi MacLean layers multimedia documents and data moshes on top of a vulnerable outcry. With bulging eyes and spaghetti-like green hair, the young man speaks in the form of a 3D-animated figure. In a high pitch voice, the character extrapolates on recent feelings of self-hatred and general aimlessness, due to financial pressures and up-keeping physical and intellectual standards while encountering romantic hook-ups. Micro-aggressions stretch the narrator’s mental bandwidth into oblivion and his cryptic self-recorded videos, along with other digital images, disintegrate into the next. While the outside world and its tactile elements offer moments of calmness, only so much can heal until the state of reality hits yet again. MacLean’s film moves quickly but packs a final punch, capturing the overwhelming influx of textures and feelings siphoned into a young person’s feed, and mind, today. by @joezappulla

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8 months ago

the ballad of tommy crumbs

#roomates #rent #comedy #sketch #fyp by @joezappulla

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2 years ago

rip is live on @nobudge (nobudge.com)!!

so excited to get to share @santithellama ‘s vision again, every frame and frame inside a frame has been meticulously placed & thought through by him. And to not only get to edit this, but also get to share my animation, & game design work (let me know if you want to play pizza run) along side his writing & the incredible actors is a dream. Our many many calls over the past year and a half working through this has been the highlight of my year and a half.

if you’d want to subscribe & check it out that’d mean the world! by @joezappulla

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2 years ago

Eric Adams and I have done nothing wrong :) by @joezappulla

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2 years ago

is this dump? am i dumping? by @joezappulla

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2 years ago

the thing i’ll miss most about rome is the abundance of free, clean, drinkable cacio e pepe by @joezappulla

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3 years ago

Baby is out now!! Link is in my bio!

it was a million honors to edit @santithellama ‘s epic motion picture debut. what a blast. And he even dealt with all the different final versions i had to make, and the time vimeo thought the short was a 360 video.

i even got to do some 3d modeling which has just been a dream hobby for a long time and now is a part of something so exciting and cool!

so thanks santi and all of the super talented cast and crew for letting me glue together baby! more fun pet namez coming soon :) by @joezappulla

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3 years ago

(Jan 8. 2023 - Joe’s cat the mayor officially welcomes Little Enzo Fortutti III to his administration) by @joezappulla

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4 years ago

new obelisk just dropped by @joezappulla

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4 years ago

Went to the dentist two weeks ago by @joezappulla

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