Cold Hard Flash: Flash Animation News, Videos and Links http://coldhardflash.com Flash Animation Community - Featuing a Blog, Videos and Links Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:42:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Marshall Preps The 3 Amigonauts’ Mission http://coldhardflash.com/2009/07/marshall-preps-the-3-amigonauts-mission.html http://coldhardflash.com/2009/07/marshall-preps-the-3-amigonauts-mission.html#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:28:48 +0000 aaron http://coldhardflash.com/?p=2777 We began following Canadian animator Kyle Marshall’s new project The 3 Amigonauts back in February, when we saw a walk test. Today Marshall delivers a little musical trailer for the project.

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Fried Green Tomatoes

Butterfinger

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The film is primarily filled with traditional animation, but as we pointed out here in January, there are number of Flash-animated scenes in the film too. Here’s some Flash scenes that were animated by Alessandra Sorrentino.

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We’ve also hit a few notable milestones lately. Over the last 5 years, this site has seen over 5 million page views. We also just hit 100 subscribers to our YouTube channel and 500 Twitter follows. If you haven’t subscribed to these already, the esteemed CHF Social Networking Committee would appreciate your mouse clickery.

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