Floaty, Freaky Flash
Kol Belov, a 30-year old out of Moscow, is operating in the dark and 
freaky space usually occupied by the likes of Tim Burton, David Lynch and more recently David Firth. It’s that creepy, nightmare landscape that Flash animators lurk in, trying their best to make your skin crawl.
Belov’s work isn’t traditional Flash fare (can the words ‘traditional’ and ‘Flash’ be in the same sentence?). It’s full of long-fluid, tweeny, camera moves and floaty, lifeless animation. But for some reason, it’s hard to turn off. It’s mesmerizingly slow, wholly unique, and a welcome addition to the increasingly diverse Flash animation universe.
Belov’s latest is a music video for the band Cyclotimia, and it’s faring quite well on Newgrounds.com, hanging close to David Firth’s ‘Salad Fingers.’ In fact, Belov and Firth’s work were mentioned in the same Flash-animation article in Rue Morgue magazine.
Thanks to Warren over at animonger.com for the link.
Tags: Newgrounds
January 27th, 2006 at 9:43 am
As long as we’re talking of Kol-Belov and Firth…perhaps a mention of the equally creepy and fantastic Scary Dolls shorts are in order.
Check it, aaron: http://www.scary.ru/eng/flash.html
January 27th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Hmmm, Good work, bad design.
Anyone? But interesting!
November 14th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Belov was around making flash before Firth, research before you write.
November 15th, 2006 at 12:31 am
Anon#2 - I do a great deal of research before I write. This wasn’t an article about who was first, and any inference to artistic ‘borrowing’ that you might have read into this was unintended.
-Aaron