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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]