Flash in The News - November 2007
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Several folks in the Flash community have been making headlines in the last month or so.
Joel Trussell, the brilliant designer and artist from Tennessee was featured in the Metro Pulse, the Knoxville weekly. They discuss his recent short for Yo Gabba Gabba!, his rise to web fame with War Photographer, and his fear of Flash games. Click here to read.
Tom Neely, who was featured here in 2005 for his Muffs music video, has been having one helluva year. His graphic novel The Blot has found a great deal of critical success, then the Black Maria Gallery in Glendale put on a one-man show, titled Self Indulgent Werewolf, of his painting and sculptures. Even in his still work, Neely can’t help but animate. Click here to read his interview at the LAist.
Gene Fowler, the top dog at Fatkat, won BDC’s (Business Development Bank) Young Entrepreneur Award for New Brunswick. The press release features a brief interview with Fowler. Click here to read.
There’s also been some echoes of a Flash-related dust-up that started over at Cartoon Brew.
Pete Emslie continues to berate Flash as the cause of bad animation.
And John Kricfalusi posted a thoughtful reply to Emslie and claims that if it’s Overseas vs. Domestic Flash - he’ll take Flash any day.
Tags: Fatkat, Joel Trussell, John K, Tom Neely
November 12th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
“And John Kricfalusi posted a thoughtful reply to Emslie and claims that if it’s Overseas vs. Domestic Flash - he’ll take Flash any day.”
i had a conversastion [well an online one] with mr. k about that a while back. ever since i was little the outsourcing and devaluing of the process of animation has made me really really angry. flash IS awesome and is helping to save animation. animation isn’t pure story, it’s an art in and of itself. not factory labor.
the writers strike has brought up the topic of animation unions again amongst my friends and i and how they’re totally nonexistent today. we have virtually no power to protect ourselves or our work or art. flash helps to put things back in our own hands, even if we’re often overextended because employers don’t know the program’s or OUR limitations.
the problem isn’t flash. it’s poor planning. which can happen in any medium.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
I’m amazed at the quantity of bile that is being produced by the ‘Anti-Flash’ mob over at Cartoon Brew and Peter Emslie’s blog.
I really can’t understand why someone can be so negative about a piece of software. I admit, I bit and commented on Cartoon Brew’s original post, but I guess it’s a waste of time. These guys are passed it, or they never were in the first place.
And there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with cut-out style animation. Some of us (me) actually like it, and make it for love, not because of financial constraints.
Gasp.
November 13th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Cartoon Brew hates everything that isn’t
A) 2D animation
B) Made from Pixar or old school Disney
C)Any sign that young animators today respect flash as much as they respect 2D
It’s not that bigt a deal. Flash is improving with every release, and other programs like Toonboom are evolving as well. They are always going to hate flash, so you might as well just ignore them and continue improving.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I took a look at the CB link. I can’t read pages and pages of the same debate, but it looks like the commenters have either gained some perspective or the more level headed ones have decided to post more. I stopped about 20 posts in, but there seem to be more voices noting the obvious: crap can be produced in any format and flash’s affordability has been the best thing to ever happen to animation.