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. [...]
mark twain: war prayer
Posted by dermot on December 1, 2008 at 12:46 pmAn animated apaptation of Mark Twain’s “War Prayer”, written as a protest against the jingoism leading up to the U.S. - Filipino war in the early 1900s.
Part 1:
Part 2 (with a little blood):
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:
animation tutorial-4: flash walk cycle
Posted by dermot on November 4, 2008 at 1:35 amHere’s part 1 of 4 part video tutorial that I made a few months ago. It shows you how to animate a walk cycle in Flash, using shape tweening and motion tweening:
animation tutorial-3 : dialog
Posted by dermot on November 1, 2008 at 1:26 am The principles explained in this tutorial can be applied to 3D or Flash animation. For the purposes of this tutorial, I’ll deal with six basic static shapes. Using these shapes, you’ll be able to animate any line of dialog.NOTE: The AF system of dialog animation was developed by companies like Hanna [...]