Platform Animation Festival Got Flashed
I spent this past week in Portland, Oregon for the 1st Annual Platform International Animation Festival. Portland itself was a thrill, and the festival surely lived up to expectations.
I joined Dan Sarto’s (AWN.com) Attack of the Blog: Meet the Bloggers panel on Wednesday (see Charles Zembillas’ photos), and then moderated The Flashers Convention, a panel covering the use of Flash in the world of character animation. Joining me on the panel were Brendan Burch (Six Point Harness), Nina Paley, Delna Bhesania (Bardel), Chris Staples (Cartoon Network) and David SanAngelo (Soup2Nuts).
We covered the benefits of Flash to independent animators, cost savings in the TV world and whether or not ‘Flash’ is still a dirty word in the animation industry. Harmony, the digital 2D software from Toonboom, ended as a topic multiple times, and seems to be making headway versus Flash.
Thanks to all who attended, and to Cartoon Network, Irene Kotlarz and Anne Denman for inviting me. I’ll surely be back next year.
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I attended the Platform Festival. It was a great time. I was present at this panel discussion and thought it was quite entertaining and very interesting. I was quite surprised to hear that Flash seems to be not as well received in the animation community as I had thought. Personally, I love it. Aaron, thanks for the wonderful discussion it was funny and very informative. Well done!
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I did not attend the festival, but I heard it was a good time. Next year for sure, fatkat will be there and tooting the flash horn as loud as we can!
July 5th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Dude, how can you not mention the awesome airport reception? I’m hurt. Really.