Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links

Shepherd Second at 11 Second Club

aaron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:15:20 +0000

Flash animator Matt Shepherd continues to outperform the majority of the field in the 11 Second Club competition. In October, this submission below placed second out of a record 207 submissions (BTW – the November competition is underway).

Geiger Joins Star Wars Uncut Federation

aaron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:15:11 +0000

Mike Geiger (County Ghost and Cuddle Sticks) has offered his rendition of a key plot point from Star Wars: A New Hope. Below is a 15-second clip from the 1977 film in which Luke accidentally discovers Princess Leah’s call for help. It’s all part of Star Wars Uncut, a new crowdsourcing project by Casey Pugh.

Fuggy Fuggy is a Lean, Mean, Thrifty Machine

aaron — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:29:48 +0000

Just when you least expect it – Fuggy Fuggy strikes again! The creation of The Brothers McLeod, Fuggy Fuggy returns in a new series of shorts for Mondo Media. I helped usher this new series into motion, and it’s a real honor to be associated with this talented twosome. Well, there were actually a few more folks working on this, including Tom Evans who animated. In this episode we see Fuggy Fuggy exploring the elusive concept of thrift.

Tandem Films Focuses on Feliway Felines

aaron — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:29:41 +0000

More cat animation from the Tandem Films team, the same team behind Simon’s Cat and a recent series of CalciYum spots. This time its for Feliway, a line of articial cat pheromones that help calm your kitty. Dan Greaves directed, and the rest of the crew included Jeroen Jaspaert on animation and Hélène Friren on design. The agency overseeing the production, titled That Purple Cat, was The Works.

TMBG and Animator Campion Urge Kids to Go!

aaron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:44:14 +0000

Following up on his 2008 project for the alternative rock duo know as They Might Be Giants, Pascal Campion has created a new music video. Much like his One Dozen Monkeys piece, this music video also features a number of primates. It’s for the song Kids Go!, which promotes the newly-released TMBG book of the same name (which was also illustrated by Campion).

Tofield Talks Felines and Flash

aaron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:44:06 +0000

In a recent article from Rob Sharp in the UK paper The Independent a prominent Flash animator has detailed his thoughts on the medium. Simon Tofield, the creator Simon’s Cat, is quoted in an article titled Internet animation: Draw it yourself. Here’s what he says:

“I do my films on Flash … and it would take me much longer if I were drawing them all by hand,” Tofield explains. “If I were doing what I do traditionally I would need to draw every frame by hand, then I would need to take them to a professional – a line tester – to photograph all of the images. Then I would need to take notes on them, make corrections over a light box and then shoot them again – it can be a very tedious process.” It is a tribute to the accessibility of the software that Tofield is a self-confessed “technophobe” – he says he knew nothing about computers before he started using Flash. Eighteen months later, Simon’s Cat has been turned into a book and Tofield’s cartoons have been seen online by an estimated 30 million people: far in excess of the audiences he would traditionally have reached. Many of his fans make their own “tribute animations” to his work. “I get a lot of these fan films,” he continues. “Some of them are really sweet. They are made by people who are very young and are very basic but it’s a nice compliment to have. I always try to reply when I can.”

Otis and Rae Star in Puny Production

aaron — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:41:17 +0000

Yesterday, I erroneously credited Puny Entertainment as the team behind a new music video, but today I think I’ve got it right. The Minnesota-based shop has animated a new short based on the book Otis and Rae and the Grumbling Splunk by Leo and Laura Espinosa. Here’s a sequence from the short:

Bogaty Swarms to Nanovor Series

aaron — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:40:53 +0000

Anton Bogaty recently took over animation and design duties on a new web series called Nanovor. It’s the spawn of the free Nanovor Online Battle Game, which was created by Jordan Weisman from Smith and Tinker. Dustin Haynes and Chris Rogers contributed to the production as well. There’s CG animation splashed around the series, which is handled by Coleman Smith.

Trussell Goes Gabba For Robbert Bobbert

aaron — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:28:10 +0000

Some Yo Gabba Gabba! goodness today from Joel Trussell ~~Puny Entertainment~~. It’s a collaboration with Robbert Bobbert and The Bubble Machine, a spin-off childrens project from Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider. We posted another video from the group here back in September. Here’s That’s My Family…

Scary Fear a Reaction to Tel Aviv Murders

aaron — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:28:04 +0000

On August 1st of this year, two men were shot and killed by a masked gunman and ten others were injured at the Gay Community Center in Tel Aviv. The killer wasn’t caught, and the resulting shockwaves in Tel Aviv and around the world are still reverberating. Subsequently, support rallies were held in a number of cities, including Vancouver, Berlin, Washington D.C., Los Angeles and Boston.

And more recently, Israeli artist Mysh, along with two animators, Dror Davidovich and Udi Asoulin, created this short film as a reaction to the incident. It’s titled Scary Fear.

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