Comments on: Traditional 2D Animation in Flash – Squish

By: Ian Copeland

Ian Copeland — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:33:15 +0000

Truer words, KNau! A good story trumps technique every time.

By: KNau

KNau — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:55:59 +0000

A wonderful technical exercise but as an actual short film it’s a student project at best.

Animation nerds complain about “typical” terrible Flash animation but Strongbad et al are always going to crush art projects like this because the “quality” of the animation isn’t important.

Flash is just a tool for animation, animation is just a tool for *storytelling*!

By: Joe Corrao

Joe Corrao — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:32:07 +0000

Amen Aaron…Happy post-Thanksgiving.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:05:25 +0000

Or even better: don’t blame the animator, blame the producers, Flash has been used as a traditional frame-by-frame hand drawn animation tool for 12 years… but only by a very small group of people, why? Cause producers have ALWAYS seen Flash as the cheap way out. Therefore people use it to appease the broadcasters and executives, to make it fast and inexpensive and “easy to edit and revise” therefore they went with the ‘symbol’ route, flat puppetry paper cut-out animation.
Very few producers have given Flash animators (that are traditionally trained) the time and money they needs to look and feel like classical animation.

By: Sketchees

Sketchees — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:10:39 +0000

I agree with Matt. It’s not that you can’t do “traditional” in Flash, it because studios won’t allow the time or hire the talent to produce this kind of work.

TV series require quick turn around with the least of cash. Hence, what’s mostly on the air waves right now.

Not to say there isn’t good Flash out there, by any means.

By: mick

mick — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:22:43 +0000

…or maybe something ‘good’ to report on…
ey Milo?

By: Milo

Milo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:10:37 +0000

Hell man… if we all spent 6 months on personal films you’d have nothing to report on dude!

By: Matt Shepherd

Matt Shepherd — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:32:39 +0000

“Rotten garbage”. ppffft, it may come across harsh to some, but its totally true.

By: Matt Shepherd

Matt Shepherd — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:30:40 +0000

Very nice animation.

I like how they used the symbols and masked the fact they were symbols. nice background! haha besmirch…busting balls…hahah, I agree, “balls” do need to be busted.

The tv market is being saturated with poor “flash” animation, I dont think its because flash “can’t” do, its because the “carpenters” can’t. Don’t blame the program, blame the animator! That’s what I say.

Nice animation!

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