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Weebls Stuff Trailer For Russian Dancing Men Game

aaron — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:41:30 +0000

There’s a Weebl’s Stuff game set to drop this month, that sets gameplay amongst some of their more popular Flash-animated shorts. In this trailer for Russian Dancing Men, you’ll spot favorites like Crabs, Badgers, Magical Trevor, Amazing Horse and of course Weebl and Bob. They’re making it for iPhone and iPad, but also Android down the line.

Peach Nova Powers Pocket God Fishmas Special

aaron — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:14:29 +0000

The merry minions at Bolt Creative have delivered a new, Flash-animated holiday short for Christmas….errr, Fishmas. The short emerges from the wildly successful world of Pocket God, which is one of the most downloaded apps on the iPhone. The piece is titled Pocket God Fishmas Special, and it was written by Allan Dye and animated by the fine folks at Peach Nova Productions (Mark Salisbury, Scott Martin and Michael Lennicx).

Swarr Worked Day and Night on MeowWalker

aaron — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:59:30 +0000

Gabe Swarr recently lent his design and animation skills to an iPhone game. MeowWalker (iTunes link) is a Michael Jackson-themed, rhythm-based game that Swarr designed and animated in Flash for Robot Symphony. As the iPhone doesn’t support Flash, they obviously exported the frames out of the software, as does the Pocket God team. I was watching this trailer below and wondering how they got the rights to Jackon’s Thriller, and then I read on Swarr’s blog that the app actually searches your iPhone for MJ tracks and pulls them into the game. Clever stuff.

Flash Animation Powering iPhone Games

aaron — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:14:03 +0000

Flash-animated iPhone games are popping up like mushrooms. This one, by Joe Cartoon appears to have been created while taking mushrooms. It’s called Blend the Boss:

… and one from the Happy Tree Friends team, called Slap Happy:

Speaking of games, here’s some Flash-animated gameplay footage from a Virtual Puppy that UK-animator Paul Nicholson created for Cartoon Network’s Boomerang website. Nice stuff!

Flash Powering iPhone Pocket Gods

aaron — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:25:06 +0000

I don’t have an iPhone, and I’m actually considering the Palm Pre to replace my dying Blackberry – but even those of us without the ubiquitous gadget know how big this damn App Store has become. Noone is more aware of this than Allan Dye, whose work you’ve seen here a number of times. He lent his design and animation skills to a new game from Bolt Creative called Pocket God, and the thing just took off. It’s held the #1 “paid apps” spot on iTunes, and it currently hovers around the 4th spot. It’s obviously not a Flash app, as Apple is loath to include Flash on their device, but all the animation was created with Adobe’s software. ~~Dye exports his animation as PNG files and then edits an XML doc that calls up these PNGs.~~ Pocket God programmer Dave Castelnuovo has developed a system that automagically creates XML data to control the PNG files. Allan and Dave co-wrote this sequence of fan-suggestion vignettes, which Allan animated.

iPhone app mania has apparently claimed a number of Flash animators. Jeremiah Johnson launched Ninja Buddy and my pal Sean McKenzie is part of the team behind the newly launched Wedgie Toss 2 (launches iTunes store).

Are you working on an iPhone game?

Missing Link Navigates Promo For WorldMate

aaron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:06:59 +0000

Oren Mashkovski, Mysh and JP Vine recently formed a venture together, called The Missing Link. They didn’t waste any time getting their first project off the ground – a promo for an iPhone app. WorldMate “takes the pain out of your business travel,” and this Flash-animated video takes the piss out of other, less useful iPhone apps.

iMock Your iPhone

aaron — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:37:35 +0000

It’s no secret that owning an iPhone makes you smarter, taller, more interesting and, well…. a little annoying. Okay, we’re all just jealous, but that doesn’t make this Flash-animated short any less funny. Cell Phone Reunion, a Collegehumor.com original, was written by Sam Reich and Mike Parker who also handled the animation.

Close My Eyes on iPhone

aaron — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:47:33 +0000

We may never know if Flash will be available on the iPhone. Steve Jobs thinks it’s too slow. While we await that official announcement from Adobe and Apple, enjoy this iPhone app that was created with Flash. The team at Tui Studios employed the software to create the prototype, the storyboards and the animation (along with Anime Studio). Little Bella’s: I Close My Eyes, which was created by Jonathan Dower, incorporates solid, interactive animation into short reading and learning exercises – all aimed at kids 3-9.

Adobe Confirms Plans for iPhone Flash Player

aaron — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:54:57 +0000

Adobe’s plans to create a Flash player for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch have been announced. In Ben Charny’s article at the Wall Street Journal, he confirmed that Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen has approved his company’s effort to create a version of Flash Lite for the iPhone using the iPhone SDK. This doesn’t mean that the Safari browser for the iPhone will allow Flash content, but who knows what the future holds.

Thanks to Larry Rains for the story tip.

**** UPDATE ****

Seems like Adobe has their work cut out for them.