Brian Tatosky

Emergency VFX Hologram 
VFX Supervisor for Star Trek
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2026-04-02 01:44:51 UTC

OK this is a first class April Fool's joke. Warhammer: 40K The Musical
https://youtu.be/59NORGNnWlQ
#AprilFools #warhammer

2026-03-31 17:06:17 UTC

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/hbo-max-paramount-plus-combine-streaming-1236676645/
Yeah if I work for P+ I'd be working on my resume
#Streaming

2026-03-31 16:54:44 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-pfiVMKAs
I'm in. Supergirl looks like the same fun as Superman.
#Movies #DCComics

2026-03-28 02:06:43 UTC

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rubio-iran-own-the-strait-now-and-thats-a-huge-bummer
Wow, if Iran takes over the Strait does that mean we went to war with Iran and essentially lost? Good jorb Republicans!

2026-03-25 22:33:50 UTC

https://www.tumblr.com/gallusrostromegalus/812034038659497984
LOL. Concrete can be good, but this is hilarious

2026-03-24 20:39:32 UTC

If AI could crash before I'm forced to do any more research on it, that'd be wonderful.
#VFX

2026-03-23 17:02:14 UTC

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/star-trek-starfleet-academy-canceled-season-2-1236696816/
#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

2026-03-03 05:27:58 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.online/@jon_alper/116163534549707469
Sweet, are people going to believe it's Christo-Fascism *now*?
#note1hda…e5k8

2026-02-24 14:55:17 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/116125626960240981
Gonna be great watching critical infrastructure collapse as a result of using this
#note1n25…z67q

2026-02-23 04:24:27 UTC

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Might have to watch every bit tonight.
#WonderMan #Streaming

2026-02-23 03:43:09 UTC

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Wonder Man is even better when you live in Los Angeles.
#WonderMan #Streaming

2026-02-23 02:15:02 UTC

Only one episode in on Wonder Man and it’s gonna be worth it for Sir Ben Kingsley alone. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is really good too.
#WonderMan #Streaming

2026-02-13 21:37:02 UTC

Josh Marshall on a thing we should tell our politicians:
I want you to be as upset about these things in Congressional hearings as you sound in your fundraising emails.

2026-02-11 17:44:50 UTC

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Holy shit the excuses they've been giving and *this* is the truth?

2026-02-10 22:30:47 UTC

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1r19729/full_video_of_today_when_ro_khanna_revealed/
Nice job Roh Khanna, calling out redacted names of Epstein associates on the House Floor

2026-02-09 03:36:37 UTC

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The script first had a trip to New Orleans, and it just got scaled back and out for budget.

2026-02-09 03:31:48 UTC

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Yes

2026-02-06 03:13:20 UTC

https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-that-only-responds-huh-valued-at-200-billion/

2026-02-05 23:29:10 UTC

Almond Basket wouldn't spoil an episode for someone else.
Be like Almond Basket
#StarTrek #StarFleetAcademy
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/020/618/679/833/326/original/5d786ad2d4e8e9f0.png

2026-02-04 01:45:39 UTC

Just skip the trailers and go straight into Episode 5 cold. It's more fun that way.
#StarTrek #StarFleetAcademy

2026-02-03 05:05:46 UTC

Felt right for this merger.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/004/955/380/395/711/original/fa8fb67a8c476b6c.jpg

2026-02-02 22:35:29 UTC

Much as I want to light everyone in the Epstein Files on fire, journalists really need to separate people he mentioned or emailed a few times with people who actually went to his parties.
At the parties needs to go to the front of the guillotine line.

2026-02-02 22:04:12 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116003266426597146
James Bond Villain level of threat causing.
1 million satellites? Up from 15,000 which we already are in danger of Kesslering us into the inability to get into orbit safely ever again. Sure, why not have the guy who puts dangerous cars, and launches his stuff regardless of the safety of the people around the launches into the air put almost 70x that amount around us.
#note12e2…cdy2

2026-01-28 17:04:09 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/115972315780495974
I remember our school principal announcing it over the PA. I thought, "Space Shuttles don't just 'blow up.'" I was in a video production class, so I ran to a TV to watch coverage. I was so wrong.
In 1985 my parents took my brother and I to Florida, and we were lucky enough to see the Challenger launch. It's an astounding thing to see a space launch in person.
People just assumed space was easy now, and it wasn't exciting to most people. Just routine. It will never be routine.
#note1trk…shht

2026-01-28 02:23:12 UTC

No amount that Jeff Bezos’s Amazon MGM Studios has paid for the Melania documentary will make up for the loss of credibility for the studio. They can safely be put in the same trash bin as the Washington Post.

2026-01-27 21:57:06 UTC

Age gates for the internet are just a continuing step in tracking and gating *all* internet users for a variety of reasons.

2026-01-27 03:46:44 UTC

Sometimes YouTube *does* recommend the right thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkhzVw0yBs

2026-01-26 00:24:47 UTC

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OK, so I stand corrected. This has awakened the Russian money fueled, gun industry shills of the NRA to be "concerned" since the regime has said "expect to be shot" if you attend a protest armed.
We can now put them into the "even this terrible person/group are concerned" pile.

2026-01-24 18:48:02 UTC

OK all you hypocritical 2A people: We're up to legal carrying white guys in the streets murdered by fascist DHS goons. Where's the outrage? NRA? So called "patriots"? This is the thing you wackos told us you needed guns for? Protection from a tyrannical government?
Wait, you were full of shit? Yeah, we knew that too.

2026-01-24 18:39:59 UTC

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Am I hearing this right, shot on the ground while being detained? On the ground?

2026-01-24 04:44:46 UTC

Every single protester, observer, clergy going to vigils and protests is 1000x the person any DHS employee will ever be.
Every single remaining DHS employee should be shunned by the public for the rest of their lives.
Remember all of this and tell your children, and have them tell their children and one and on. How America took of the mask and became fully fascist and how many of the people around them gleefully joined in.

2026-01-22 02:01:29 UTC

https://www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/director-gore-verbinski-says-unreal-engine-is-the-greatest-slip-backwards-for-movie-cgi/
NO, GORE, NO!
My man, you have *no* idea what you are talking about here. No one is doing real creature stuff for LED volumes, and Maya is not a renderer anyone uses for final output. Certainly not in any of your Mandalorian examples from ILM is that happening. Hero CG work is almost always added later. (For Trek it's ALWAYS)
You could an argument about Unreal as a renderer versus VRay or Arnold or Solaris, but it's more the artist, not the tools.
#VFX

2026-01-20 19:17:33 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115929018900177332
This is why a Newsom Presidential run is a non-starter. He's fun trolling Trump, but this kind of shit makes the left justifiably hate him.
#note1ayw…80z3

2026-01-17 19:29:25 UTC

Almond Basket is They/Them, BTW. :)
#StarTrek #StarFleetAcademy

2026-01-17 02:31:10 UTC

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Kinda like this:
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/908/088/178/467/324/original/9a45ce9abaaad4ed.png

2026-01-17 01:09:17 UTC

Which makes a better tagline for a T-Shirt?

2026-01-16 18:38:45 UTC

I don't think it breaks any NDAs to say production is rather happy Stephen Miller hates Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
And none of us believe he actually watched any episodes.
#StarTrek #StarTrekSFA

2026-01-15 22:46:28 UTC

It's name is Almond Basket.
Modeled in Blender by me, textured in Substance by Mark Shimer, one of our in house artists.
#StarTrek #Blender #VFX
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2026-01-15 20:54:47 UTC

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100% The amount of money and time we have wasted on DHS' security theater, and now our own Gestapo, none of it is worth keeping.

2026-01-13 17:29:55 UTC

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/12/pete-hegseth-woke-ai-military/88152569007/
Local Fox News drunk moron misses entirely what Star Trek or even most sci-fi is about. Not to mention what our AIs are like.
You fucking keep Star Trek out of your mouth, Nazi criminal. You'd be the villain in any Trek story.
#StarTrek

2026-01-13 17:23:51 UTC

RE: https://autonomous.zone/@dantescanline/115887315732568407
This is the way.
#note1rm9…ln9l

2026-01-13 04:34:57 UTC

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Yeah totally. It's so ephemeral. But I also don't have to worry about anyone's lives in making VFX. "No babies will live or die based on what this spaceship does." :)

2026-01-13 04:25:22 UTC

Crazy the way TV and filmmaking work: In a few days something I've been working on for over 18 months will finally be out and in 9 weeks will be finished already.
Those kind of numbers still get me, even after decades of this.

2026-01-10 01:15:03 UTC

11/6/26--Godzilla Minus Zero!
#Godzilla #Skreeonk
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/868/152/647/674/932/original/dbe5dd2e1def4f1f.webp

2026-01-06 20:20:28 UTC

Happy 5th anniversary of an attempted coup on the US that we never punished anyone for leading to exactly where we are today with rampant government lawlessness.

2026-01-06 03:17:11 UTC

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Just looked at LA Public Library witch has 415 waiting for one of 55 copies. Love to see it from both!
#LibrariesRule!

2026-01-04 23:42:24 UTC

Bold move to celebrate the US's 250th by getting rid of the rule of law.

2026-01-04 20:47:12 UTC

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-evening-news-we-love-america-guiding-principles-1236622708/
What a load of horse shit. CBS News is dead as a journalistic endeavor; it's a mouthpiece now

2026-01-04 19:14:51 UTC

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/first-thoughts-on-trumps-excellent-venezuela-adventure
Josh always puts it better than I could.
"...Nor can any of this be separated from the broader domestic and global fabric of Trumpism, the casual illegality, the impetuousness and more than anything else the simple but always visible premise that Trump owns the United States, its military, its people, its wealth, everything. Someone told me earlier that this was like Trump taking his ICE raids global. And yeah, it pretty much is."

2026-01-04 18:42:15 UTC

It's not he invaded Venezuela just to distract from the Epstein files. He wants the largest oil reserves in the world *and* to distract from the Epstein files.

2026-01-02 23:27:47 UTC

Getting Grok to "apologize" for generating non-consensual porn is like getting Excel to apologize for generating accounting fraud.

2026-01-01 17:51:05 UTC

I see pictures of rain on the Rose Parade. I literally do not remember it happening before in my lifetime.

2025-12-29 18:07:49 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lashman/115803815128207539
If this makes it to the EU without getting hobbled, it will be a great thing for *everyone* not just the EU. Competition is good.
#note17t5…0uay

2025-12-23 18:09:55 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hollywoodreporter/115770205161055413
Oh, so that's out now.
#note1qs6…ratz

2025-12-23 01:59:36 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.benpettis.ninja/@bpettis/115765976237777695
Sooo, I guess the 60 Minutes segment was accidentally uploaded to a network station's streaming app in Canada, and people have captured it and put it on archive.org.
"Canada’s Global News aired the “60 Minutes” episode without the segment on television, as did CBS, but the network’s Global TV app mistakenly uploaded the wrong episode to its streaming app."--Variety
(edited for more info from Variety)
#note1klw…cxrz

2025-12-20 22:40:12 UTC

Had to take the daughter to pick up a Facebook Marketplace purchase she made, but I had no idea it'd be this far.
#StarTrek
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/754/297/602/007/235/original/71a93ab7a17d8d83.jpeg

2025-12-17 01:38:08 UTC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/16/coast-guard-swastikas-nooses/
Oh, so they let the anger die down a bit and then did the policy anyway?

2025-12-17 01:35:11 UTC

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LOL, that's not that stupid. I didn't know half the jargon, but "IV with ringers" has stuck in my head forever.
What I also didn't know was that when that show started there were only 6 paramedic units in the WHOLE US. I knew it was new, but not *that* new.
And now I know how we have Freedom House Ambulance Service to thank for paramedics.

2025-12-17 01:13:20 UTC

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I'm sure it was entirely meant to valorize Police but it did the opposite to me. Of course I always loved Emergency over Adam-12. :)

2025-12-17 01:01:40 UTC

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The times I've watched it really pounded home how most of their stops should be fulfilled by mental health professionals, or counselors, or a whole variety of NOT COPS WITH GUNS instead.

2025-12-17 00:52:59 UTC

Do you think he even knows where Venezuela is?
And what are the odds that he knows he is lying about the country, versus just dementia?

2025-12-11 18:05:40 UTC

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Oh, I'm counting down the days until we are given the direction to open a can of slop and apply it. So far, the lawyers are still afraid of it, but this was all pre-Skydance, so we'll see.

2025-12-11 17:59:35 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
What if Supergirl was in the Guardians of the Galaxy universe?
Not against it though.
#DCComics #Movies

2025-12-11 17:39:12 UTC

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This Disney deal has finally broken me. I clearly don't understand anything in the world anymore.
Disney pays OpenAI so OpenAI can keep using Disney IP.
I mean people who want Minnie Mouse porn are going to be stoked.

2025-12-11 15:06:29 UTC

https://deadline.com/2025/12/disney-openai-deal-sora-1236645728/#utm_campaign=syndication&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=referral
Seriously. What the fuck?
What does Disney get from this?

2025-12-11 01:42:41 UTC

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Your use of color is so refined and subtle and wonderful!!! And the comics are funny. Really love your work. :)

2025-12-10 01:12:31 UTC

https://www.theverge.com/news/841220/mcdonalds-ai-generated-christmas-ad
“the man-hours poured into this film were more than a traditional production.”
“Ten people, five weeks, full-time. Blood, sweat, tears, and an honestly ridiculous amount of coaxing to get the models to behave and to honor the creative brief shot by shot.”
So you probably lost money to come up with the average of a million mediocre productions in an ad no one will care about otherwise that you wouldn't want to put on a reel. Good Jorb!!!
#Commercials #AI

2025-12-05 17:54:08 UTC

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I agree, but also that's going to totally be abused.

2025-12-05 17:36:48 UTC

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Warner Bros have just been passed from bad owner for customers to bad owner for customers over the years so this just continues the trend really. Remember AOL? AT&T?

2025-12-05 17:18:18 UTC

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros-82-7-billion-deal-1236601034/
Huh. Don't think there was any "good" ending to this sale, just different bad ones. I guess we know what streamer HBO Max will be eaten by.
#Streaming #Movies #WBD #Netflix

2025-12-04 20:07:48 UTC

Hmm, this doesn't look like a poster for the show I am working on.
#StarTrek
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/663/101/332/953/945/original/39a24d7858fba5d1.jpg

2025-11-24 17:57:46 UTC

OH SNAP NEW DEFUNCTLAND!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIgV84fudM
#themeparks #Disney

2025-11-21 20:08:02 UTC

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It's always been considered that higher warp speeds take more energy to create, hence more stress on the parts etc. But you will notice now there's a lot more "Go to maximum Warp" and ignoring the numbers entirely. I loved the that whole plotline about ruining space and needing a speed limit, because *storywise* they keep shrinking the universe I love the idea that they are months away from command or resources and need to figure things out. Bummer they dropped it.

2025-11-16 00:22:33 UTC

I seriously do not care that Christopher Nolan shot 2 million feet of film for The Odyssey.
Industry coverage has invented a new crazy metric for movies.
Are we measuring quality of product by the amount of unused material now?
Maybe amount of takes is next? Most on-set walkie talkie battery recharging? First aid kits available per size of crew?
#movies

2025-11-11 18:00:23 UTC

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I did not know that and that is very cool. Where it shot makes sense, but LOL framing :) I had one from Gerry Anderson's UFO, and a talking one from the Star Trek Animated series among others.

2025-11-11 17:55:52 UTC

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Just curious out there in the Fediverse

2025-11-11 17:53:01 UTC

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/mattel-view-master-movie-zootopia-screenwriter-phil-johnston-1236574975/
View Master? Sure. Gonna kill with over 50s I guess.

2025-11-10 19:06:23 UTC

I'm working on the beginning of the end of a thing and it makes me sad. Too soon.

2025-11-10 06:34:27 UTC

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Mad enough to send Chuck another of my regular emails to him telling him to retire. The national party is just never going to get my money ever again.
No one self-sabotages like the Democrats self-sabotage.

2025-11-10 05:36:31 UTC

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10000000% agree.

2025-11-07 00:47:46 UTC

Wow, Enterprise-D is bigger than I thought it would be.
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/505/657/535/412/549/original/c54ed2f5613e70f6.jpg

2025-11-04 21:31:25 UTC

https://variety.com/2025/film/features/david-ellison-hollywood-takeover-paramount-warner-bros-1236569136/
RIP Kelvin Universe

2025-10-23 00:49:54 UTC

They're going to auction naming rights for the White House ballroom right? Maybe slap it with the corporate logos of all the collaborators who kicked in bribes to Trump?
Still like the suggestion of the "Epstein Ballroom"

2025-10-22 00:08:18 UTC

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LOL :)

2025-10-22 00:05:09 UTC

Hey I know I'm not asking for something big, like regime change, but if the AI bubble and/or Crypto bubble could collapse for my birthday, it would be one of the best gifts ever.

2025-10-21 23:46:20 UTC

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Especially an ugly one.

2025-10-21 23:31:22 UTC

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So is Orange Hitler building himself a special bunker?

2025-10-21 16:31:43 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115412710610243132
This is bad for everyone. But entirely unsurprising following Zaslov's terrible running of the business after AT&T's not great running of the business after AOL Time Warner's not great running of the business....
#note1ruf…r9yz

2025-10-20 22:53:43 UTC

Oh, I see.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/408/949/767/228/648/original/9160cd7601837ab0.png

2025-10-17 20:20:01 UTC

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/midway-blitz-prosecutions-body-cam-footage-dismissals
Keep allowing protesting America. Fuck malicious prosecution of protestors.

2025-10-10 01:13:29 UTC

Billionaires weaponize white supremacy to their own ends. Both need to be pulled out by the roots and completely destroyed.

2025-10-09 19:45:20 UTC

RFK jr announces Due Process causes autism.

2025-10-06 21:31:46 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKXaVYZYEtM
Such a good cover of a great song
#DEVO

2025-09-30 18:31:04 UTC

I know some probably totally agree with the Secretary of "Macho Performative Bullshit" but the vibe I get from this picture is "listen to this jackass".
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/294/670/786/984/401/original/2d99e8279949261b.png

2025-09-30 04:12:10 UTC

WTF, Wilshire Blvd. McDonald's with no large drinks. How do you be McDonald's and run out of large cups?

2025-09-24 04:45:56 UTC

Best part of the Kimmel monologue is that there were funny bits too. The "official statement" got me. I've followed Jimmy since he was the knucklehead sports guy on KROQ and I've never imagined he'd end up here with this career.

2025-09-23 18:54:02 UTC

When you hit a certain age, 90% of your time building custom PCs will be spent picking up dropped screws and fishing them out of cases.

2025-09-22 21:00:54 UTC

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Gene Scott was UHF right? Sorta a TV preacher, but much more than that. I remember him watching him talk about pyramids for a long, long time once.

2025-09-22 20:49:40 UTC

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No, but now I have to find it

2025-09-22 20:20:17 UTC

I hope Jimmy devotes the whole next week to nothing but Trump commentary. Well, maybe Brendan Carr as well.