Hi! #PortfolioDay I'm a writer, director and storyboard artist with nine years of experience in the animation industry. I also wrote and directed an award winning short!

Portfolio: kristengish.myportfolio.com/work
Email: [email protected]
Short: youtube.com/watch?v=9lXL7r…

I'm so numb to see that RUGRATS ('21) has been taken off of Paramount+ AND Bossy Bear has been taken off the Nick Jr. website without warning. So many cartoons with YEARS of work put into them by hardworking crews are getting thrown out. This new norm is killing our industry.

Absolutely insane how Pink Floyd chose an AI generated video as the winner of their $100k animation competition over a hand crafted masterpiece such as this one by Yosh

Fuck AI

#StandUpDaimler

NowThis laid off 50% of staff 6 wks ago to become 'NowMedia.' Their new Advertising Partners: big pharma, union busters, predatory health insurance, and then HBO Max and Unilever twice each.

Their mission? 'To uplift like-hearted people through human-centered storytelling.'

If you’re interested in helping out IATSE members while negotiations are ongoing, check out the organization AID IA! tinyurl.com/aidiacollective

Animated series that has been removed from Paramount+ today:

- Big Nate
- Blue's Clues & You!
- It's Pony
- Middlemost Post
- Ollie's Pack
- Rugrats (2021)
- Santiago of the Seas

This is art. This is work. This is years of effort. Late nights and difficult problem-solving. Joy and laughs in the process of creating something meaningful for kids. This is a contribution to media, culture, humanity.

And now this is gone.

And it’s ANIMATED 🔥🔥

UNITE HERE Local 11 announcing terms of the contract agreement members just ratified at 34 hotels. Workers won everything they struck for: wages, healthcare, pensions, fair workloads & growth. But we’re not done until we’re all done #SoCalHotelStrike twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

📢📢📢 I am putting out a public call to action for Animation Guild members who are paid up to attend the next General Membership Meeting on March 26th at 6:30PM. You have to RSVP by tomorrow morning at 10AM! Go do that RIGHT NOW!

Why is it important to attend this meeting?🧵

Calling all Animation Guild members!!! If you are in good standing with the Union, please RSVP to the next General Membership Meeting before 10AM tomorrow morning!!!

If you like cartoons, take a couple minutes to learn what the people who make ‘em care about: our UNION and how we all fight to make the cartoon industry driven by the people it should be driven by: us! Not corporations!

Unfriendly reminder that animation studios are not your friend and your relationship with them should be entirely transactional (ie paying you to do a job).

They are COUNTING on you animation hopefuls and fans to line up and be eager to be exploited :)

TAG is thrilled to announce the ratification of a groundbreaking contract for #animation workers at Nickelodeon Studios. Combining agreements for 2D, 3D, and production workers into a single contract, it proves the power of collective action. Congratulations! #WePowerAnimation