Archive for the ‘flash’ Category
growth
Posted by dermot on September 20, 2009 at 7:03 pmHere’s a clip from my in-progress animated documentary. This sequence deals with the implications of exponential growth on a finite planet:
The voice is temporary, and will be replaced with a human narrator when the script is finalised.
The animation was done in Flash, with the exception of the spherical scene, where the doubling square is mapped [...]
an etiquette guide for animation clients
Posted by dermot on April 14, 2009 at 10:01 pmOK; you need to hire an animation studio to bring your animated property to life. Before you start, there are some basic suggestions that you may need to consider:
1. If you’re going to design fully realistic detailed human characters for a Flash project, don’t be surprised when the final animation doesn’t look like the Esurance [...]
the chinese are coming!
Posted by dermot on March 18, 2009 at 12:35 pmOK kiddos, here’s a word of warning…
One of the long running trends in animation since the 1980s has been the out-sourcing of work to Asia and other cheaper sources. In general, this has resulted in an appalling lack of quality - but the suits and bean-counters haven’t cared about quality for decades.
In the 80s there [...]
1948 scene converted to Flash
Posted by dermot on March 4, 2009 at 1:39 pmHere’s a scene from the 1940s animated propaganda cartoon “Going Places”.
I wanted to use this footage in my movie (a 30 minute animated documentary about oil, & growth), but as my film is in Flash, the lineweight and style just didn’t match. The best resolution I could find of the original was also too poor. [...]
exponential growth
Posted by dermot on December 12, 2008 at 11:33 pm
This is a short test piece to illustrate the effects of exponential economic growth:
It’s from my up and coming 30 minute documentary which deals with oil, energy, and growth.
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”: