Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links

Perel Gets Busy With My Virgin Dad

aaron — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:18:08 +0000

Yotam Perel’s latest Flash-animated short in his Lazy Writing series is titled My Virgin Dad. Gently spoofing a sitcom TV format, Perel introduces us to an unlikely father of 3.

Hao Leaps Into Music Video For Vektormusik

aaron — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:07:34 +0000

After more than a half-year of production, Qian Hao has completed his latest university project, a music video for the Vektormusik track leap2. Quan had help on the Flash animation from Li Qing and Li Man, students at the China Academy Of Art, who also used After Effects in the process.

Avoid The Turtle in TomSka’s asdfmovie5

aaron — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:08:53 +0000

TomSka, along with his trusty animator pal Jamie Spicer-Lewis, have delivered yet another installment in the wildly popular asdfmovie series. Shocking the world, they have titled this one… asdfmovie5. Enjoy:

Asbjoern’s Latest Deposit – The ATM

aaron — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:49:36 +0000

Rikke Asbjoern (The Furry Pals), has revealed a new short she created at Cartoon Network last year. The ATM was intended as an intersticial, and all of the animation was produced in Flash. Full credits below.

CREDITS
Written & Directed by Rikke Asbjoern,
Art direction & BG design Chris Garbutt,
Storyboard, animation & character design by Rikke Asbjoern,
Compositing by Celine Desrumaux,
Editing by Jamie Foord,
Voices by Rasmus Hardiker and Jess Macdonald, Music and SFX by Dave Newby and Paul Chauncy, Final Mix by Hackenbacker, Producer Lola Gamester, Executive producers Michael Carrington and Daniel Lennard.

Dan & Jason Give Flight to Animated PPL Spot

aaron — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:02:10 +0000

Hornet Inc’s directing duo Dan & Jason have just delivered a new spot for PPL Electric Utilities. The ad, titled Birds, was drawn in Flash, however the team used the software as an ink and paint tool, animating ‘traditionally’ as you’ll see below. The line work was also run through a texture mask to give it a pencil line quality. The animation on the spot was handled by Mike Luzzi and Mark Pecoraro.

Heat Coming From CalArts Short Swelter

aaron — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:59:34 +0000

Jacob Streilein’s 2nd year film from his studies at CalArts is a boiling, post-apocalyptic film called Swelter. Water is scare, but tension is not in this dialog-free, 2-minute short, which Jacob produced with Flash, After Effects and Photoshop.

Izen Animates Coldplay Lullaby

aaron — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:23:06 +0000

Jon Izen (Yam Roll) recently produced a music video for singer songrwriters Renee & Jeremy. Here’s their lullaby rendition of Coldplay’s Yellow. Izen utilized Flash and After Effects.

Mukpuddy Adds Pocket Protectors To Their Arsenal

aaron — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:18:39 +0000

The Mukpuddy gang has delivered a new cartoon series for New Zealand television. Pocket Protectors airs on Sunday monrings on TV2 at 8am, and the team used Flash and After Effects to put this 5 minute episode together.

Nguyen’s Flash Animated Quickie

aaron — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:34:29 +0000

Here’s a short clip from Clélia Nguyen, a student at EMCA in France, which she created in a few days. Not much happens here in this quick rendition of Little Red Riding Hood, but it sure looks nice.

College Humor’s Too Many Avengers Spoof

aaron — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:06:27 +0000

Dan Meth animated this new College Humor spoof of the upcoming summer blockbuster The Avengers, which opens this weekend. Here’s Too Many Avengers: