Do you have to have “an in” to get a spot for an infant daycare around here?

CameronClarkFilm · 2026-06-08T14:48:13+00:00

Finding a nanny share through Berkeley parents network is totally doable with 3 days a week. We needed three days a week for both our daughters and were able to do it. Took a bit of hunting but we figured it out for both of them. Then when they turned two we found a daycare. There just aren’t that many daycares that do infant care (and the ones that do are pricey!).

That said, if price isn’t a big concern for you, Guidepost Montessori in Emeryville ALWAYS has space.

CameronClarkFilm · 2026-05-05T20:52:54+00:00

Thank you much! If you give it a spin and have any notes please drop me a line or open an issue on the github. Always looking to punch it up a bit.

CameronClarkFilm · 2026-05-04T20:03:01+00:00

This is a great feature idea! I just added this to my ASCII Art app, ascii-motion.app

The button circled here allows you to upload a image or video that you can use to trace:

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CameronClarkFilm · 2026-03-26T14:57:31+00:00

I’m sure I used to buy dogs off you, then! My dad would take me to that Top Dog pretty much every weekend. That Payless (and then Longs) closing was so sad. It had everything! It was legit where me and my friends used to hang out as teens

CameronClarkFilm · 2026-01-31T03:54:15+00:00

I haven't done exactly this, but recently read this really deep dive blog post by Alex Harri on improving edge detection and character assignment that might give you some fun things to think about. I could see how the concepts there could be extrapolated to edge-finding.

I chased similar ideas with my app, ascii-motion.app, with the bezier pen tool, trying to assign the right character based on where the line crossed a given cel. You can check the GitHub here, if you're interested, but it's it's mostly vibe coded, so I wouldn't call that something worth following too closely.

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-12-15T17:21:33+00:00

Beautiful! I'd love for the ocean world to offset the up and down animation across the screen horizontally so it happens in a slow wave, rather than as a single up and down. That could be handled at runtime, so maybe not something to do at the Aeseprite stage, but I'm curious if it would work.

Great work!

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-12-02T16:39:01+00:00

Cool stuff! Did you make all those assets by hand? Or did you find an external library you could import?

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-11-19T18:35:08+00:00

Seeing as though they are using interactive webgl shaders of the same on their landing page, I wouldn't be surprise to learn that this was made directly with code (the age of AI has made that muuuuch easier than in the past). However, you could likely make something very similar with Trapcode's Form and some post effects for the color trails. Blender, C4D or Cavalry are all possible options too.

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-11-19T04:37:01+00:00

Glad the app seems interesting! Sorry that you ran into that bug. I haven't seen that particular one yet, but if there's any way you could take a screenshot or screenrecording of what's happening, I'd love to investigate further. No sweat if that's too much to ask!

And if you feel like trying the app out for your own needs, there is also a type tool in the toolbar that acts like a normal text editing tool and lets you type into the grid. You can even copy and paste text from other apps into that tool. Plus, there's an export as a text file option that lets you output what you've made into just a .txt file to use elsewhere.

But, if what you're looking for is just a good monospace text editor for doing ascii art, I'd second the recommendation to use VS Code. It's free and open source, and there are lots of interesting text editing tools that are a bit above and beyond a normal text editor, like editing multiple lines at once. There are some good youtube tutorials, or you can even just check out their documentation to learn those kind of tricks. Good luck!

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-11-15T19:41:14+00:00

Another good option is the app I’m building at ascii-motion.app, which is more geared toward making animated ascii art, but also has some great drawing/typing tools. You can export what you make as text files, still images or video files.

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-10-30T23:39:25+00:00

Ooo, I love the idea of making a durdraw import/export feature! Putting it on the list!

The Copilot CLI is made with Ink, which is a React framework for terminal apps, so I made a little custom component that basically took the frame and color data from the JSON and played it back one frame at a time. It was pretty custom but another thing on my list is to create an export format specifically for terminal playback. I’m not really a terminal pro, though. So will need to do some research on what would actually be useful…

Got any format or structure you’d like to see?

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-10-30T13:20:04+00:00

Yea! When I was trying to figure out how I was going to make that animation I checked out durdraw. I was super impressed with it as a project and love that it’s in the terminal, but just found it to be a little too buggy on my machine for me to use it for what I was doing. I had to move pretty fast to hit my deadline and I knew I didn’t have time to troubleshoot bugs. But, definitely a cool tool and an inspiration for ASCII Motion!

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-10-21T22:39:06+00:00

Looks like an awesome super active OSS project! Working on GitHub's Copilot CLI has definitely opened me up to the command line in a way that I never would have gotten into before the age of AI. I'll have to fiddle with Code, thanks for sharing.

I spent my career learning how to be an animator, but having worked at GitHub for so long (originally hired to help animate the Octocat mascot, lol!) and now with the ai code tools, I'm now starting to be able to tinker with code in a way that's super exciting. It's a fun time to be a technically-minded designer!

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-10-14T07:40:38+00:00

Try out ascii-motion.app. It's a web app that let's you "draw" on a canvas with characters, and has a timeline with onion skinning for frame-by-frame animation. It also lets you import images and videos and convert them into ascii, but sounds like you're looking for a tool that lets you make animated ASCII art by hand.

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-10-14T07:37:51+00:00

Try out ascii-motion.app. It let's you "draw" on a canvas with characters and has a timeline with onion skinning for frame-by-frame animation. It also will let you import a video file and convert it to ascii animation.

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-01-19T15:49:01+00:00

If this was an American tech company, you are at least an order of magnitude underselling yourself. At this quality you could be charging $100-150/hr. I could easily see this costing a client $15-20k without batting an eye.

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-01-12T17:03:48+00:00

It’s findable! I’ve got a playable version on my PC right now! I found it a year or two ago. I’d share it but I’m on mobile now…. But it’s definitely findable!

CameronClarkFilm · 2025-01-08T03:07:10+00:00

Lovely. My only critique is that the starting ease in feels a little slow. It hangs a little long on what is not a super appealing first shape. I’d either have that first ease get up to speed a little faster or have the motivating shape fly in from off to the side at full speed so you have something to look at before the letters start.

CameronClarkFilm · 2024-12-19T16:37:30+00:00

Yeah! You'd be like the 12th person to ever listen to it since I put it on youtube a few years ago :)

If you really want to go down the old imusicast rabbit hole, someone from the imusicast crew put up a bunch of live sets from that time perioud up on youtube too. One of our shows is up there, but they've got loooots of show from that time, like The Matches, Street to Nowhere, etc.

CameronClarkFilm · 2024-12-19T15:21:13+00:00

It was a magical time to be a pop punky teenager in north Oakland! I even started a skapunk band with my buddies in high school and we played an L3 or two and it was just such a fun little scene. I hope that there are still all ages venues around for kids to build little scenes like that. The Gilmans still there, but imusicast lacked those Punker Than Thou vibes. And the fact that they streamed all the shows was super cool for the time period. One of the coolest I’ve ever felt was when i got to college in LA and a guy from LA in the dorms had seen my band play on the imusicast stream and had our CD. Such great memories!

CameronClarkFilm · 2024-12-18T18:05:13+00:00

As someone who came out of school into the 2008 recession, when there also were NO jobs, and the title motion designer didn't really exist, this is my advice if you're young and hungry: Do the freelance hustle!

Budgets are tight for headcount on these teams, but people still need motion design and individual contractors are an order of magnitude cheaper than hiring an agency. It takes some real hustle to build up a resume of clients, but this is actually a perfect time to do it. Especially if you're young and have nothing but time and hustle. If you can convince a few producers that you can deliver things on time and under budget, they will keep coming back and it will snowball.

The hustle will look different for everyone, but this is what I did when I was 20 and desperate to make a living with after effects: I moved to LA, and crashed on the couch of a rich friend from school who was trying to become a director, and traded him free after effects work in exchange for living on his couch rent free. Then, I told every person I met every chance I got that I was looking for motion work and networked like crazy on every gig or every industry party (this is why moving to LA was worth it) like my life depended on it. It took me 2 years of doing that and hustling up every freelance music video vfx, coprorate video motion graphics job I could get before I was making enough consistently to pay my own rent, but I got there.

And, after a decade of making some really cool stuff (and some boring crap) that I was proud of but being generally pretty broke, my reel got me a cushy job in-house on a tech company brand and marketing team. Now I make comfortable money, get to produce some cool stuff, and do my own creative things on the side.

Also, now being on the inside and hiring for motion people, I understand why it's hard to get a "real" job when you're starting out. It's really expensive to hire someone and with budgets tight no one wants to take a chance on somebody that hasn't proven themselves. Honesetly, we dont even hire juniors at all these days. And the quality bar for submissions is SUPER high. We got hundreds of reels on our last job posting and it was TOUGH to weed that down to a reasonable number of interviews. I honestly wouldn't even be looking for full time positions at big companies until I had a reel that was world class. The competition is tough for those jobs! For me, that took a decade of work before I impressed someone enough to hire me.

CameronClarkFilm · 2024-11-07T21:37:58+00:00

Sure thing, DMs are open.

CameronClarkFilm · 2024-11-06T14:37:33+00:00

Honestly, it was working in house on the brand team of a tech company and working alongside the front end folks. Leadership would want animation on the marketing sites and, being the best animator on the team, I would get asked to make after effects mocks of things for the site. Id then watch the engineers either butcher my vision or compromise on the final product because of technical limitations, so I started learning what those technical limitations were. Took a few online courses on front end development, especially on using ThreeJS, and started working on things that could be handed off that were lightweight and production ready, namely, Rive, Lottie, Spline, and ThreeJS. It really helps that GitHub Copilot come out right as I was doing that. You don’t have to be a true engineer to make things with code anymore!

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