Toani 🎋

#TalesofTheTMNT season 2's #animation involved 2 massive teams of rough animators rotating onboard, we were often provided character layout from Nickelodeon and @TitmouseInc for a smooth production. I worked 13eps through 2 seasons mostly with @DouglasDeAzev15's team.🐢✨ #TMNT

I attended "The Peg Bar", Animation Mix n' Mingle event at "The Wych" in Toronto today. It felt nice to reconnect and meet amazing artists. I sang karaoke on stage for the first time...! My entire body kept shaking, it was fulfilling.

i cant believe school lets me animate yandere femcels for class

Updated my animation Demo Reel 2025, I am currently available for work discussion. #portfolioday お仕事は今を受付中。 youtu.be/KtqUXjvyV2g?si…

Been cleaning characters from college, about 7-8 years ago? I was a really distracted student who got hired too soon, and didn't finish my portfolio. It's really important to finish illustrations outside of work!✨

@Vercreek Wow, incredible. Love it.✨

Gong Hei Faat Choi! Red Envelope for you, you, and Me! ✨🧧🧧🧧 恭喜發財，新年快樂 🧧🧧🧧 If you cross your finish line, you will have good fortune this year! 🎋 #ChineseNewYear2026 #YearOfTheHorse #LunarNewYear #新年快樂

Minotaur animation by Wayne Unten.

Invincible Fight Girl, 2D Character Rough, Cleanup & Paint Animation Reel 2023. Participated in ep4 & 9 w/ anim director Sean Covernton's team @titmouseinc and @cartoonnetwork on @adultswim🎇 Incredible voice acting❤️ #invinciblefightgirl #ifg #CartoonNetwork #cartoon #anime

Agent Elvis 2D Rough Animator Reel 2022. Comp, FX, retake, post did an amazing job finalizing the show. It's my first time seeing the final! This was my first rough animator job at Titmouse, Inc. after layoff on Green Eggs. #agentelvis #netflix #sonypicturesanimation #animation

@HiconManiacs I hope this helps somewhat. I have been an occasional fan of your twitter posts, and appreciate your hard work. Let's do what we can to be happy at our pace while we are still here! ✨

@HiconManiacs Have I wholeheartedly watched a movie or hobby outside my job. For people, put your all into saying "Hi", "Hello" with a smile, you do not need to think further. The 1st time is out of innocence, the 2nd, we do it out courage knowing it could be a jar full of snakes and poison.

I thought I’d write a quick update. Don’t worry. I’m more or less okay. Since around the year before last to last year, I’ve been living with this mindset of “not expecting anything” from things. My head has become the kind that doesn’t really feel much no matter what I’m told. Even if someone says good things about a project I worked on, I don’t take it to heart. And even if I hear something negative, I don’t really feel anything either. Before, I would work hard on a piece and think, “I’ve done this much, so it should go well.” But when it didn’t go well—or when I realized that the people around me hadn’t put as much feeling into it as I had—I would get crushed. To avoid falling into that kind of low, I started thinking from the beginning, “I worked hard, but it probably won’t go well.” I thought that way, I wouldn’t sink below zero emotionally. Even if something did go well, I deliberately chose not to feel too happy about it. There’s always the possibility that I’ll be betrayed again, or that I’ll later realize what I thought went well actually didn’t. So I tried to receive everything in a flat, neutral way. Simply put, I tried not to swing between highs and lows about anything. I did it to protect my own mental state—to prevent emotional turbulence, and to avoid creating periods where I’d fall into a deep slump. I started letting everything pass by without really taking it in. And as a result, my stress dropped a lot. But because of that, any communication beyond work-related back-and-forth has basically become zero. Even when someone gives me feedback or impressions, my brain counts it as if “nothing was said.” It makes me feel like video-making has become one-way, and I start to lose track of who I’m even making things for. Then I end up feeling like nobody really wants me to try hard in the first place, and it’s become difficult to maintain motivation for work. It feels like taking painkillers: it dulls the pain, but it also numbs the joy, the sense of response, even the feeling of connection. Originally, I approached my work with the desire to make someone happy through what I create—so maybe this outcome was inevitable from the start. I just didn’t fully understand that. When it comes to actually working, my brain automatically generates ideas and starts thinking about how to make the visuals better, so I haven’t had too much trouble there. While I’m working, that’s fine. But I’ve realized two things: first, my brain won’t start thinking unless the work is right in front of me; and second, after I finish, a strong sense of emptiness and loneliness comes rushing in. Since last year, I’ve also stopped talking much about the work I’ve handled. I can still give everything I have to the jobs that come in, but if I allow myself to expect that someone might watch it when it’s done, I’m afraid of how much it will hurt if that doesn’t happen. So I started thinking, “Sure, I’d be happy if someone watches it—but it’s more likely they won’t.” And as a result, talking about the work I’ve done started to feel meaningless. There was a time when I thought I could balance things out by communicating with people outside of work. But I’ve spent my entire life up to now living only through work, and I’ve reached a point where I can’t take interest in people who can’t seriously face their work or what’s in front of them. I also found myself unable to do what you might call normal, everyday conversation. (I lost the “how” of it.) So even when I try to talk to someone, it turns into this unnatural mode of “I have to talk” or “I have to work hard at having a conversation.” That just exhausts me mentally, and eventually I stopped trying to talk outside of work altogether. Maybe it would be better if I could imagine things going a bit more smoothly, or if I could simply accept positive comments as positive facts without fear. But honestly, I’m still scared and I can’t do it yet. Even now, I’m writing this without really knowing what the right answer is. At the moment, I’m barely holding things together by facing my work with one main axis: “Can I, personally, feel satisfied with what I did?”—my own actions and judgments. But because my self-evaluation is low, I still sometimes spiral into: “Even if I’m satisfied, how much value does this actually have to other people?” It’s difficult. As a human being, I might be broken in some way—but I’m good at generating ideas, and I believe I can create visuals that feel convincing. So I wish people would make better use of me as a resource. Recently I worked with Ōhira-san on Star Wars, and also on the ending for Gangrion. That was fun.

@animesijyuku 先生、このメッセージは本当ににありがとうございます。

アニメーターや絵業で生きていきたい人、転職したい人は指示待ち、受け身の人はおすすめしません。 超絶上手い！！人ならどんな性格でも是非あなたに！！となるかもしれませんが、自分はそこまでの画力がないと思うのなら、積極的に動く、相手の仕事を奪いに行く！！くらいの勢いがないとまず生き残ることは不可能です。 これから就けるであろう仕事、また今の仕事の方が圧倒的に稼げるだろうし、生き残りやすい。 絵で生きていくという極めてフワフワした世界だからこそ、本人の戦略はシビアでなければ通用しません。

Green Eggs & Ham season 2, Cleanup/IB/Revisionist Reel 2022. In Dec 2019, I did a test to get onto Green Eggs & Ham for season 2 thanks to Blair Kitchen, in loving memory. And two incredible supervisor/lead mentors. #greeneggsandham #drseuss #netflix #WarnerBros #animation

Participated in a few Cleanup, inbetween, and paint animation scenes for Castlevania: Nocturne in 2022 and 2023. Thank you Powerhouse Animation. #Castlevania #CastlevaniaNocturne

A Spooky Dance before Chrimus #fridaynightfunkin #spoookymonth #fnf #newgrounds youtu.be/-8b8tU93R2Y?si… out my Newgrounds, Discord, Kofi, Patreon linktr.ee/nikoyo.artist :D @newgrounds

Some of my shots from Tales of TMNT.

Go team Pepperoni Go! 🤘

Tales of the TMNT Season 2 is now streaming on Paramount+, and I couldn’t be prouder of the incredible work our team put into this season. While the series was unfortunately cancelled, our legacy lives on 💪 See you on the other side, homies! Trailer by Caleb Yoder

And here is Team Pepperoni animation reel part 2 featuring scenes from the episodes I had the privilege of directing animation on Tales of the TMNT Season 1. Go team Pepperoni go! 🙌 #TalesofTheTMNT #2danimation #TMNT