Hello. Let me introduce myself since I am not much active around here.

I am Jay. I am a photographer, filmmaker, and now a podcaster.

Currently, I am working on like four or five animated short films, with one that I am focused mostly on will be set in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I am working on test animations with placeholder assets but currently I am suffering some creative blocks. This short, Maddy & Nick (working title), has a voice-over opening narration and the rest is silent. But the narration was written without the letter "E." And so are the drafts of the (unpaid) casting and volunteer calls. I will put out both the casting call and volunteer calls either here or on my own bsky.

And I am doing podcast as well.

I started a movie podcast show a few months ago. It's where me, my co-host, or our guest bring up a live-action movie they would like to redo as an animation. It was (partially) inspired from one challenge that the Danish film director Lars von Trier has given to his film school professor Jørgen Leth in the documentary The Five Obstructions. Von Trier asked him to redo his short film The Perfect Human into a "cartoon."

In the very first episode, we talked about that documentary The Five Obstructions. I am surprised (or not surprised) that not many people watched it. Some people knew who Lars von Trier is but they don't know much about this documentary. Not many animators know who Lars von Trier as well.

Recently, I brought in a professional film critic and video essayist Scout Tafoya to talk about an old 1940s black-and-white noir drama that's set in post-revolution France. From there on, we discussed Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers and among other things. This was my favorite episode so far.

And so, I will be hosting my podcast here as well.

And I am going to update my short film progress too.