Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash is one of my fav sci-fi novels, so I had to pay homage (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵) The Deliverator is my Roman Empire 🚗💨
“The Deliverator’s car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator’s car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your car’s tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator’s car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady’s thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.”
Yeah.
Been slowly cranking this one out the past couple weeks ⁺˳✿ This is me telling the world that I want to do this kind of work forever (because what you give to the world comes back three-fold). Enjoy ::)
(P.S. This one is dedicated to my pal @willpietsch . He was a gentle giant of a human, and one of the funniest people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. I'll miss ya, bud.)
⁺˳✿⏦₊ *ੈ𑁍 ་۪ ✿◞ 𓍯ོ
Made some fun stuff with the lovely @workwithkin team 💙 for Intuit's stand-up series "Life-ing." I dubbed this style "Sardonic Psychedelia" and it seemed to stick. Illustration and animation by me, and swipe for some early logo exploration too! Sometimes I pinch myself for having the job I do, what the heck y'all? 🌹🌦️🪳💸
#illustration #2Danimation #noAI #handmade
🙌 Please say hello to Emily Su, one of Kin’s favorite collaborators and longtime go-to illustrator ✨ Over the years she’s brought her sharp eye and playful imagination to projects like Mailchimp’s “Give Where You Live” and Intuit’s comedy series “Life-ing.” When Emily’s involved, the work instantly gets a little smarter, a little stranger, and a lot more fun.
Raised in the Pacific Northwest to a Thai father and an American mother, Emily first thought her future was in film. She studied production at NYU and spent her early days on sets like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Saturday Night Live. But it didn’t take long to realize she was less interested in organizing the magic than making it.
That realization led her through a wonderfully eclectic creative path — from BUCK to London’s stop-motion scene building miniature worlds as a fabricator and production designer, to studying graphic design in Sweden before fully embracing illustration and digital storytelling.
Today Emily works across an almost unfair number of mediums: illustration systems, motion and animation, AR/VR, experiential design, editorial work for The New Yorker and The New York Times, narrative design for video games (including “Let’s! Revolution!” BUCK’s colorful puzzle adventure game), and because her talent has no limits, handmade rugs!
A self-described rolling stone, Emily has lived in Portland, New York, Los Angeles, London, and Seoul, and she’s not done yet.
Her motto: “You are always allowed to redraw your coastlines.” ✏️
Photo dump from the year and a piece I never got round to posting ☆*:.｡.
Time for a retrospective spilling of my guts: this year was more destructive than fruitful for me. Physically and creatively. And I felt like I fell behind in life. Work was good, but somewhere along the way I stopped drawing just for me. I always felt that my personal value rests on what I create, what I express, and in 2025 I don't think that amounted to much. I withdrew from community, I curled inward. I stopped cheering for and celebrating our industry.
So instead what did I get up to? I guess I wrote a lot, and I dreamed. Maybe more than ever before. Played some piano. Read constantly. Tried to be a good partner. But it's hard for me to really quantify what became of that.
But now, I can feel something shifting somewhere FINALLY and I think I can see the stars again: this next trip around the sun will be about making magic, and it's almost time to start :) My witchy and dark feminine era is here and I'm turning a little deranged. Chewing at the bars and all that. Maybe soon I'll be dancing naked under a full moon 👹
Happy New Year everyone and have a beautiful, heartfelt, inspiration-filled 2026 🖤
(Last thing, this year was so good for travel though 👏🏻 Went to Berlin for Picto, Oslo, south of Sweden and Copenhagen, and a brief trip to Amsterdam. More of that next year please!)
(Edit: this Yoodle was live only for a half day today but will go up again soon 😊) Go check out today's Yoodle up on the YouTube homepage celebrating the Puzzle community! Designed by yours truly, animation by the one and only @jdashscott , with animation direction by the wonderful @_littlefang and @fabianmolina 🤎🧡💜🩵
Color ways of the first few slides are alt versions of my own.
@designatyoutube #yoodles #2danimation #puzzlecommunity
🍄🍄 Here's a little animation, the latest @mean_mr_mustard piece showing my love for music of the 60s and 70s. Today it's Peter, Paul and Mary's "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" from 1967. The lyrics say it all for me: how the Mamas and the Papas, Donovan, the Beatles and rock music in general during this era were pretty awesome.
"The message may not move me, or mean a great deal to me. But hey, it feels so groovy to say..."
Hope you like :)🍄
#2danimation #celanimation #photoshop #retroanimation #1960s #psychedelicfolk #sunshinepop #flowerpower #meanmrmustard
Love me a long weekend 🖤🤍 I've been MIA here lately, been enjoying my non-digital life and working on a larger personal project outside work. How's everyone been? Miss you all ˚✧☆〜（ゝ。∂）˚✧
