Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links http://coldhardflash.com Flash Animation Community - Featuing a Blog, Videos and Links Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:37:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Oddbot Goes Around the World in 80 Wiggles http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/oddbot-goes-around-the-world-in-80-wiggles.html http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/oddbot-goes-around-the-world-in-80-wiggles.html#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:33:26 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=3865 Elwood and Ofie Wormington are the stars of Oddbot Inc’s new animated series, titled Around the World in 80 Wiggles. The Flash-animated series is “designed to spark a child’s interest in exploring diverse cultures.”

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]]> http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/oddbot-goes-around-the-world-in-80-wiggles.html/feed 0 Cross Raising Money For An Animated Short Film http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/cross-raising-money-for-an-animated-short-film.html http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/cross-raising-money-for-an-animated-short-film.html#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:41:01 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=3855 Nick Cross The Pig FarmerNick Cross, the award-winning animator behind films like The Waif of Persephone and Yellow Cake, has embarked on a new short. For The Pig Farmer, however, Cross is staging a fundraising effort to help get the film finished quicker. Using the fundraising website IndieGoGo he aims to raise $5,000, and I just tossed $25 onto the pile. For that I get a mention in the credits and a DVD of the finished film. If I had forked over $100, Cross would have listed me as an Associate Producer and shipped me his entire catalog of films. (update – Nathan Malone added his name to the Associate Producer list)

There’s a few similar sites out there, including Fundable, Kickstarter and Indie Maverick, and animators around the world are having success using this model. For instance, I spotted Line, a stop-motion film by Justin and Shel Wagner Rasch, which has already raised $1,250 en route to their goal of $2,500, and a documentary about documentary about Bill Plympton that’s raised almost as much.

This method seems like no more than a sophisticated version of the ol’ Paypal “donate” button, but it’s apparently working. I’ve always imagined that fundraising is entirely personal, requiring lots of shmoozing, hand-shaking and repeated appeals. But perhaps you just need a slew of Facebook friends and a blog.

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]]> http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/cross-raising-money-for-an-animated-short-film.html/feed 4 More Animation From The Ricky Gervais Show http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/more-animation-from-the-ricky-gervais-show.html http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/more-animation-from-the-ricky-gervais-show.html#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:40:35 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=3859 The premiere of HBO’s news animated series The Ricky Gervais Show is less than 2 weeks away (February 19th), and I spotted some additional Flash animated footage. Animation by W!LDBRAIN.

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]]> http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/more-animation-from-the-ricky-gervais-show.html/feed 3 Sit Down For New Cyanide & Happiness Short http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/sit-down-for-new-cyanide-happiness-short.html http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/sit-down-for-new-cyanide-happiness-short.html#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:36:20 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=3852 After sitting in your office or school desk all week, I say we end on this one. It’s a new Cyanide & Happiness short, created by Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker and Chase Suddarth. It’s titled The Man Who Could Sit Anywhere, and while the animation isn’t world-class, these guys are pretty damn funny.

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]]> http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/phillips-illustrates-his-animation-process.html/feed 5 Happy New Year Animation From France http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/happy-new-year-animation-from-france.html http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/happy-new-year-animation-from-france.html#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:07:54 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=3844 Parisian animator Louis de La Taille has decided that celebrating 2010 need not last a single day – we can welcome it’s arrival all year long. Okay, he was simply just late on getting his Happy New Year (or Bonne Année, as they say in France) card out, but it’s wonderfully animated. He rendered it all in Flash (and composited in After Effects).

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]]> http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/happy-new-year-animation-from-france.html/feed 1 Sykes Drafts Second Hexjibber Book Promo http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/sykes-drafts-second-hexjibber-book-promo.html http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/sykes-drafts-second-hexjibber-book-promo.html#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:58:33 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=3839 The UK’s Andy Sykes has crafted another Flash-animated promo for his self-published Hexjibber Colouring and Activity Book.

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]]> http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/sykes-drafts-second-hexjibber-book-promo.html/feed 0 Behemoth’s Preview Performance of BattleBlock Theater http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/behemoths-preview-performance-of-battleblock-theater.html http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/behemoths-preview-performance-of-battleblock-theater.html#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:56:44 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=3837 Well over a million people have downloaded Castle Crashers, the Flash-animated console game from The Behemoth. The game is reportedly arriving on the PS3 sometime this year, and while we wait, there’s a new Behemoth game to oggle. BattleBlock Theater, another Xbox Live Arcade gave, has to be one of the more creative set-ups in gaming history – you’re shipwrecked on an island terrorized by giant cats who force islanders into “deadly performances.” Here’s a teaser of the game-play, which includes all sorts of 2D animation, presumably led by Dan Paladin.

Thanks to Sean McKenzie for the tip.

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]]> http://coldhardflash.com/2010/02/ohara-hopes-to-steal-top-prize.html/feed 9 Puny and Splendid Things Hatch Phillip the Safety Egg http://coldhardflash.com/2010/01/puny-and-splendid-things-hatch-phillip-the-safety-egg.html http://coldhardflash.com/2010/01/puny-and-splendid-things-hatch-phillip-the-safety-egg.html#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:27:40 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=3830 Puny Entertainment and the sketch team Splendid Things paired up to create this new 4-minute short titled Phillip the Safety Egg. It’s full of freshly cooked insanity like bacon bazookas and 100 foot tall chickens. The Flash-animated short was written and directed by Puny’s Mike Owens, developed by Puny boss Shad Petosky and Will Shepard. The Splendid Things team, which is comprised of Eric Knobel, Hannah Kuhlmann and Michael Ritchie, voiced and wrote the piece the day of the record.

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