Archive for November, 2008
my documentary: energy slaves
Posted by dermot on November 28, 2008 at 4:52 pmHere’s a short scene from my work in progress. It’s a half hour long animated documentary about oil, energy and growth:
The animation of the man is taken from one of the old propaganda cartoons from the 1940s. I reanimated it in Flash, which allows me to resize it, and to reuse it in the second [...]
she who measures
Posted by dermot on November 27, 2008 at 10:01 amShe Who Measures is an eerie piece about the consumer society.
Polish SF writer Stanislaw Lem dealt with this theme many years ago (long before “The Matrix” films) in his book “The Futurological Congress”. Don’t read this link if you’re going to read the book, as it contains spoilers:
mickey: downsized
Posted by dermot on November 20, 2008 at 12:11 pmI did this short piece as a going-away present to Disney back in 2006, when myself and three co-workers were “downsized”:
flash cs4
Posted by dermot on November 19, 2008 at 3:47 pmHere’s a video of the new features in the upcoming version of Flash, CS4.
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=87
Why do they torture us with these ridiculous version names? MX, MX2004, 8, CS3, now CS4. It’s pointless and confusing.
Anyway - to the main point: for years, since version 4, the Flash developers haven’t cared much for animators. Most of the [...]
flash ’second life’
Posted by dermot on November 18, 2008 at 3:21 pmVia coldhardflash, an interesting site called “Whirled” - it’s an attempt to create a Flash version of “Second Life” - the 3D virtual reality chat world.
Users will be able to create their own avatars, and hang out.
Sad to say I found the frame-rate a wee slow. It’s actually quite difficult for Flash to handle a [...]
beauty now
Posted by dermot on November 14, 2008 at 1:22 pmHaving worked on a pastiche of the 50s propaganda cartoons for the last two years (and watched most of them), it’s fun to see this amazing effort by Paul Flanagan, titled “Beauty Now”:
http://coldhardflash.com/2008/11/oflanagan-displays-beauty-now.html
Note the scene where the girl exits the car with her knees together. Sadly, they don’t teach that technique to young ladies any [...]