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Title: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: mouser on June 05, 2006, 10:24 AM: Animator vs Animation
Amazing flash animation
this is really brilliant and beautiful.. one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

http://abum.com/file/shadow/animations/17632.swf

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(http://abum.com/file/shadow/animations/17632.swf)

from http://www.ghacks.net/
(thunder7 told me about this site - looks good - thanks thunder7)
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: jgpaiva on June 05, 2006, 10:34 AM: Amazing flash animation
this is really brilliant and beautiful.. one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
-mouser (June 05, 2006, 10:24 AM)
OMG... I am so with you on this one... Amazing! I don't even know enough english adjectives to describe how fantastic this animation is!
So much creativity, very smart, wonderfully made.. I love it! :-*
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: m_s on June 05, 2006, 11:43 AM: Very clever! Nice find, M. :up:
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: nudone on June 05, 2006, 01:21 PM: ingenious.

maybe there is a whole genre for this type of stick man animation???

here's an old one - can't remember where i got it.

maybe it's the same artist but i'm guessing that this .gif is from someone else - simply because of the energy in the animation.

this .gif is pretty amazing if you ask me.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: mouser on June 05, 2006, 06:50 PM: wow that is another amazing one. nice find nudone. love it. :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Josh on June 05, 2006, 08:09 PM: That is the coolest flash video I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Rover on June 05, 2006, 09:53 PM: That has to be the STUPIDEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!

OK, I'm just kidding. It was really a lot of fun. I just hate to be the "me too" guy. ;D
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: JavaJones on June 05, 2006, 09:57 PM: Very cool indeed! I'm seeing the makings of an "outside the box" multiplayer game. Anyone else? :D

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: gjehle on June 06, 2006, 08:10 AM: lol
that's some funny shit :D
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: f0dder on June 06, 2006, 08:19 AM: nice!
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Edvard on June 06, 2006, 11:05 AM: nudone: there is a genre.
Probably started by two people. One is a man known as Xiao Xiao. A collection of his animations can be found here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/xiaoxiao.html
The other would be the original Stick Death webpage. Warning: Very graphic (for stick figures, that is...):
http://www.stickdeath.com/
and a whole collection of stick figure games and videos here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/sticks.html
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: nudone on June 06, 2006, 12:47 PM: thanks for that, Edvard.

i shall investigate those links. :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: nudone on June 06, 2006, 12:57 PM: still going through the links - the one on http://www.stickdeath.com/frameset.htm called 'tax time' made me laugh.

the .gif file i provided above still feels to me like it's a few levels above everything else - animation wise. i'd love to know the origins of it.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: thunder7 on June 06, 2006, 03:40 PM: Well if I knew you liked that sort of stuff I would have sent a lot more. ;D
I usually scan web sites find lots of cool stuff dump it to my desktop, and when I am bored I (usually) come back too it.

www.ghacks.com (http://www.ghacks.com) & http://www.lifehacker.com (http://www.lifehacker.com) have a lot nice freeware and usefull info.
I am checking there sites quit often. And http://shellcity.net/ (http://shellcity.net/) has many excellent programs including Mouser's apps. I have been to this site a lot as well http://popurls.com/ (http://popurls.com/).

Want more links I have enough to keep you busy for a while :Thmbsup:
L8r
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: thunder7 on June 06, 2006, 04:00 PM: This animation is cool had to upload it
http://img343.imageshack.us/my.php?image=index0vy.gif (http://img343.imageshack.us/my.php?image=index0vy.gif)
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: nudone on June 06, 2006, 04:06 PM: This animation is cool had to upload it
http://img343.imageshack.us/my.php?image=index0vy.gif (http://img343.imageshack.us/my.php?image=index0vy.gif)
-thunder7 (June 06, 2006, 04:00 PM)

you've provided a link to the .gif i mentioned earlier on - on a different site, of course. i'd still like to know it's origins and i agree it is cool.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: thunder7 on June 06, 2006, 05:21 PM: I borrowed the link from you.
And uploaded it. Very Cool Find

Check this- !!!WARNING!!! INCLUDES BUGS-
Tiny Robots Control Cockroaches
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060605/roaches_tec.html?source=rss (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060605/roaches_tec.html?source=rss)
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: nudone on June 06, 2006, 05:25 PM: sorry, i understand now. i didn't read your post in the correct way.
Title: Re: Stick Figure Death Animations
Post by: Deozaan on June 07, 2006, 06:35 PM: The other would be the original Stick Death webpage. Warning: Very graphic (for stick figures, that is...):
http://www.stickdeath.com/
-Edvard (June 06, 2006, 11:05 AM)

Actually, I think the first ever Stick Figure Death website was Stick Figure Death Theatre (http://www.sfdt.com/) made by Matt Calvert, an old acquaintence of mine. Back then it was just four simple gif animations (that weren't even really that great) but it became extremely popular. Later he added a few more animations and eventually turned his site into the portal it now is.

I joined the fun about 8 years ago when I decided to take my comic-style stick figure death drawings (done in my high school sophmore math class, Geometry, when I finished with my classwork) and turn them into animations and post them online. I hadn't heard of it online until that time. I joined a Yahoo! club, The Stick Figure Death Club (which sadly turned into a teenage flame forum with tons of porn spam), and met some good people there who were all making their own stick death animations. I have lost contact with all but one of those people, who today is the longest internet-only friend I've ever had, and quite honestly, my best internet buddy.

But as I said, I made a website and published my animations for others to see. The teenage enthrallment with gore gradually passed and I started making some non-stick death animations and other experiments in Flash. I haven't updated the website for at least two years now, but it's still there. Big Hed's Studio (http://www.bighed.net/) is what I called it. Feel free to browse through my small portfolio of animations.

I also did some Flash experiments to help me learn some things with ActionScript that I posted there. I mentioned these when I first joined DonationCoder. There is no link from the website to see them, but you can access them directly here: The Idler Projects (http://www.bighed.net/idler/) is what I called it.

Oh, and by the way, Allen is my best internet buddy.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: jgpaiva on June 07, 2006, 06:56 PM: Remember the game worms?
I loved to destroy the scenery in that game. Here's a stick figures version of that game: http://www.sfdt.com/flash/hosted/movies/15005.html
(found through Deozaan's latest post ;) )
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: thunder7 on June 07, 2006, 07:08 PM: BLOODY :o COOL :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: mouser on June 07, 2006, 10:12 PM: Deozaan - you did all those animations on big hed's studio? cool!!!!
sticks in space has great atmosphere! very fun.

and i've seen your flash experiments before - i think you should make #040425 into a screensavers - it's very cool to look at.

great stuff. :up: :up: :up:
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Deozaan on June 07, 2006, 11:03 PM: Deozaan - you did all those animations on big hed's studio? cool!!!!
sticks in space has great atmosphere! very fun.

and i've seen your flash experiments before - i think you should make #040425 into a screensavers - it's very cool to look at.
-mouser (June 07, 2006, 10:12 PM)

Yes I did everything there. I had some great ambition for SiS but as I've found is usually the case with my ideas, my ambitions seem to be greater than my motivation. I really like starting projects but I have a hard time finishing them some times. As far as I know, if I had gone through with it, it would have been the only stick figure animation/series that took place in space. Unfortunately, my computer was stolen and I lost all the original files for Big Hed's Studio.

#040425 (April 25, 2004) is actually not even my own creation. I just did a tutorial from the website I got the inspiration from to make the Idler Projects in the first place: Bit-101 (http://www.bit-101.com/). Awesome place which, back then, had new experiments almost daily. It's in the lab section. I've never seen the new lab until just now so I'm not sure how to navigate it to find the past projects, but if you go to the old lab it has a calendar with the days highlighted of new experiments.

If you or anyone here can direct me to instructions on making a flash program into a screen saver, I don't think it would be difficult to do that.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: hamradio on June 07, 2006, 11:20 PM: Heard it is easy to convert a flash into a screensaver with Screenswift (http://www.tenmiles.com/screenswift/download.php).
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Deozaan on June 07, 2006, 11:37 PM: Heard it is easy to convert a flash into a screensaver with Screenswift (http://www.tenmiles.com/screenswift/download.php).
-hamradio (June 07, 2006, 11:20 PM)

Awesome, Thanks. The actual SWF file is less than 1KB but the installer is 1.2MB.

If you never watched it to the 'end' I need to warn you that eventually they all merge into one group and hide off to the side of the screen.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: mouser on June 07, 2006, 11:38 PM: deozaan how about a flash game staring Cody? i can provide some nice clean images of him :)
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: mouser on June 07, 2006, 11:44 PM: screensaver installs and shows it running in the about box (cool!) but i cant get it to work for real..
(preview shows static image and running it has no effect) any one else get it to work?
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Deozaan on June 07, 2006, 11:46 PM: I just installed it and it works for me. The small windows in Screen Saver setup shows it in action and clicking Preview also shows it in action.

deozaan how about a flash game staring Cody? i can provide some nice clean images of him :)
-mouser (June 07, 2006, 11:38 PM)

Got any ideas for the actual game? I'm terrible when it comes to original ideas. :-\
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: mouser on June 07, 2006, 11:57 PM: we were discussing on the irc channel a while ago a story line involving Cody and his evil cousin.
join irc and chat about it :)
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Deozaan on June 07, 2006, 11:57 PM: Here's another one. My brother actually made this. It's kind of like Air Hockey but with three paddles. The red team actually has more complicated AI so it should score higher.

Preview it first (http://www.bighed.net/idler/activist/cannonball3.swf).
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: mouser on June 08, 2006, 12:00 AM: that's actually quite beautiful. might make a fun screensaver as well.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Malacandra on June 16, 2006, 08:13 AM: Not flash but for my tuppenneth this is still the best:

http://www.xiaoxiaomovie.com/movie/xxiao01.avi (http://www.xiaoxiaomovie.com/movie/xxiao01.avi)
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: mouser on June 16, 2006, 08:18 AM: the xiaoxiao movies are groundbreaking.
Title: Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.
Post by: Malacandra on June 16, 2006, 08:58 AM: Actually the whole site is worth a peruse.

http://www.xiaoxiaomovie.com/ (http://www.xiaoxiaomovie.com/)

So long as your Chinese? is up to it.