Jan
5
2006
A Flash Pioneer - Collideascope
posted by admin, 8.23 AM
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I’ve been following Collideascope Digital for a while now, 
but I’ve never given them the spotlight they deserve. They’re an animation and new media company located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, headed up by M-A Kuttner and Steven Comeau. They’ve been at it since 1995, and lay claim to being one of the first Flash animation studios in the world, with a short airing on television in 1999.
They’ve created and animated 2 Flash series, ‘Olliver’s Adventures’ and ‘Delilah and Julius.’
Collideascope is also the studio that animated ‘Bromwell High,’ ‘Girlstuff/Boystuff’ and ‘Farzzle’s World.’
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January 6th, 2006 at 2:35 am
“…and lay claim to being one of the first Flash animation studios in the world…” thats a bold statement Collideascope. Everyone knows or should know that John K. and Spumco were THE first to produce Flash projects. Heck, one might say that John K. invented the Flash animation wheel.
January 6th, 2006 at 2:50 am
I’d like to see what they were doing ten years ago. Weekend Pussy Hunt was made back in 1997 or even earlier back when Flash was called “Internet Animatoonmation.”
January 6th, 2006 at 6:58 am
quit being a bunch of jerks, who cares who was first. you guys are the reason flash is having a hard time being taken seriously. let’s evolve people!
January 6th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Amen brother, I would have to agree.
January 6th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Hello all. I haelped to start up the Collideascope animation studio way back when. They’re not saying they’re the first, their saying that they are one of the first. The firt short I did there was called “Tongue Twister”. I animated it using Future Splash (which is what flash was called before it was sold to Macromedia). Also, we really were one of the first studio to do Flash animation for broadcast. Regardless, Collideascope has been doing it and doing it well for over 9 years now. Kudos.
January 7th, 2006 at 1:20 am
Hi!
I’m here at Collideascope, and it’s nice to see some people standing up for us like this! (I figure you’re Sean Scott…I might be wrong :D)
Cheers!
January 14th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Just to help with more clarification, Spumco/John K. were not the first to use Flash, they were just one of the first to do great quality Flash episodes for the web, Flash internet cartoons were around before John K. began putting them online. However, Collideascope seems to be the first to use Flash as a traditional animation tool to create broadcast animation, since the first evidence of this was their shorts and commercials nearly 10 years ago, I think it’s Safe to say they truely have been doing it longer than anyone else.
-Ron
March 14th, 2006 at 1:00 am
I am confused. I went to Collideascope’s site and it is terrible! Takes a long time to load and the background is very busy and chaotic. Some buttons are white scribbles that are hard to even notice. They used to have a better site, with more info and lotsa bios…are the animators not there anymore? There aren’t any animators listed in the bios, which is odd if they are a vital part of the team, right? The new site is strange to me.