Animation - A Boy and His Blob

Watch the Magical Moving Pictures at deviantArt

Gave Flash another try, and now that I know deviantArt is a good place to post swfs for free, it can be shared with the universe (for about 9 minutes until 500 other submissions push it into oblivion). This one is kind of like a storyboard, it's just 50 drawings moved and scaled around to tell the story; it winds up looking more like a comic strip that moves for you so your eyes don't get worn out scanning back and forth at different panels. It took a few hours to make this one, so I can't imagine doing a full blown hand-drawn cartoon this long yet.

Moving Pictures

Here's two flash animations I made recently; I uploaded them to megaswf.com and you can view them by clicking on the links below the still pictures. If anyone has better ways to upload and display swf's in blogger for free, please leave a comment! I would like to embed them directly into posts so there's no clicking links and navigating away.

The frog animation was the first simple one I did, trying to learn how to make the fly follow a path. You might notice if you drew out the path the fly follows, it never loops over itself - Flash wouldn't let me use guide paths that crossed over themselves. Again, if anyone has ideas on how to overcome that, please leave a comment!

 

The Wallaby Brutally Assaulting the Dog is not an endorsement of hurting animals (I don't want to lose my $100 million in endorsements), but was used as visual trash talk in my fantasy football league. Unfortunetly, my Wallabies were soundly defeated by my brother's Mad Dogs thanks to Brandon Marshall breaking the all time single game receptions record and everyone on my team scoring about half their average.

The joys of animated GIFs

No file format seems to be quite as entertaining to me as an animated GIF, no matter how crudely it is drawn. I got Flash with the CS4 Suite that I wanted mostly for Photoshop and Illustrator, and haven't done much with it, but since animated crude drawings are 1000x more entertaining than my still crude drawings, I think I'll start practicing with this stuff.