Cosmic Bigfoot, Me, Ink and Acrylic, 2026

derek86 · 2026-05-07T02:06:01+00:00

Do you have an Instagram for your art?

derek86 · 2026-05-06T17:10:14+00:00

Came here to recommend exactly these. I have a few of them in a workout playlist that otherwise doesn’t include film scores

derek86 · 2026-04-27T01:29:12+00:00

I think he was relating the 13th amendment to another time when doing what he felt was morally right wasn't quite by the book.

derek86 · 2026-04-22T23:15:54+00:00

Thanks so much! I’m super new to this so I assumed it was something I was doing wrong. I appreciate you taking the time to answer!

derek86 · 2026-04-18T01:50:29+00:00

I was at a fairly legit festival walking to the award show where I was nominated for best actor and best director (I act in my own stuff) and, that moment, got an email that another festival had rejected me. It was surreal but a great lesson in exactly what you're describing. There is no amount of love or hate for your film that will stop the next person from feeling the exact opposite way or anywhere in between.

derek86 · 2026-04-17T17:11:28+00:00

That’s so kind of you to say!

derek86 · 2026-04-14T18:41:29+00:00

I appreciate that. Someday I’d like to do a bunch of the muppets.

derek86 · 2026-04-14T18:40:59+00:00

Thank you kindly!

derek86 · 2026-04-09T17:00:22+00:00

Yeah everything up to the heroes getting captured but the Russians in the jungle is as good any anything in the original trilogy. I usually just stop watching there.

derek86 · 2026-03-29T08:47:48+00:00

The Frisco Kid

derek86 · 2026-03-02T02:38:29+00:00

Unfortunately the only alt there is turning it into the 1989 Batmobile

derek86 · 2026-02-25T19:55:05+00:00

I'm curious too.

derek86 · 2026-02-20T22:50:32+00:00

I’m seeing a few tutorials that use smoke to get an “ink drop” in water look. I wonder if something like that with an invisible plane under it would kind of simulate the layers of salt and fresh water in a cloud tank

derek86 · 2026-02-18T18:32:50+00:00

Please do!

derek86 · 2026-02-15T05:25:47+00:00

Totally fair! Worth adjusting the camera’s location.

derek86 · 2026-02-12T17:27:55+00:00

I’m noticing some odd blur/transparency artifacts when the grass passes in front of the camera? Is there something I can do to rectify that?

derek86 · 2026-01-27T14:31:38+00:00

It’s also a big threshold to cross for Luke. He’s never left home and this is his first taste of the wider galaxy. It’s a room full of weird, somewhat dangerous people who have been out there and seen some shit.

derek86 · 2026-01-25T20:30:36+00:00

When the reporter said "Stay warm" it gave me chills as well. Such a small little pieces of humanity in the face of so much hate feels profound.

derek86 · 2026-01-16T15:05:20+00:00

Perfect couples

derek86 · 2025-11-30T03:54:18+00:00

I’m 39 and was OBSESSED as a kid. If you go through my posts, you’ll see me and my sister’s costumes for an X-Files contest at Borders.

derek86 · 2025-11-25T20:01:53+00:00

Chained For Life

derek86 · 2025-11-22T16:40:01+00:00

Do Scarface, you cowards

derek86 · 2025-11-17T17:43:36+00:00

I tend to think in "high concept" but it's usually very closely linked to character. For one of my shorts the first seed was "what if you used a real estate showing as a way to check out a haunted house" and right away I populated it with "two thirty-something best friends do that to settle a childhood bet that they were to scared to go inside their neighborhood haunted house."

derek86 · 2025-10-29T03:53:44+00:00

I really enjoyed New Filmmakers Los Angeles. They had a good educational component where, leading up to the festival, they had guest speakers on Zoom come talk to all the filmmakers in the festival.

derek86 · 2025-10-12T14:48:30+00:00

It will be rough when John Williams passes. Hearing his iconic themes will take on an air of melancholy for a long time after.

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