I wanted live-action film for the narrator and 2D animation to convey his recollections. My idea was to have an old Italian guy remembering his dear cat, Luigi. We also hoped to merge the 3D look with elements of my style and the look of the more flat Clay-on-Glass style used in films like "Rex the Runt". We wanted our 3D animation to look a little different from the more polished Pixar-type films. Brian loved "Mondo Luigi" and, sometime later, we began our collaboration. I suggested a project I had begun, but put aside to work on my current project, "DRoM". Brian had been using Maya (3D animation software) at work and wanted to apply (and expand) his skills on his own personal project. Excited and inspired, we decided on the way back home to work together on a short animated movie. We headed up to the festival early the next morning. He rented a fancy car with a GPS Vehicle Navigation System (boy, was that a treat!) and drove up from the Washington area. In 2004, I asked Brian if he'd be interested in driving up to Canada to attend the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Brian, a tech wizard and a talented, generous human being, continued to help me out over the next couple of years when I foundered with other software, like Macromedia Flash. One of them, Brian Hoard, was particularly helpful and he generously took the time to execute the final edit on my overlong and somewhat stilted first attempt, "Hatman Serenade". By not separating them, they’ve given Flash, the robust animation tool, a bad name.Elwood & Brian's LuigiWhen I was in the early stages of learning the 2D animation software, "Toon Boom Studio", several users on the Toon Boom User Forum came to my rescue. They were separate products and served completely separate purposes. Outside animation, many Flash developers are publishing direct to platforms like HTML5 Canvas or WebGL.Īdobe should have separated Adobe Flash and Adobe Flash Player years ago. You can also export from Adobe Flash direct to H264 Video which is native to QuickTime. But the fluid character movement you can get in Flash and it’s timeline frame-based animation is hard to beat. After Effects is the best tool for post production and for slick, motion graphic driven animations. Talking characters? Running characters? Flash is the way to go. I prefer to draw in Adobe Illustrator and then import the characters into Flash to articulate and customize.
It’s also super easy to tweak existing vector graphics you’ve drawn by stretching and squashing elements to the shape you want. Flash is great if you’re doing character animation with lots of interactive movement like walk cycles. But Flash’s timeline based animation is still the closest things to hand drawn animation. There are other programs out there for 2D animation, such as Adobe’s After Effects or Toon Boom Studio. On the other hand, Adobe Flash itself is still a useful tool for designers and animators. It was a problematic bear of a plugin that had to go. Adobe Flash Player has long had security issues and suffered from instability. The problem is, Adobe has done a really crappy job of separating Adobe Flash, the tool, from Adobe Flash Player, the plugin.Īdobe Flash Player is a plugin that became a binky for advertisers to serve up video ads and rich media ads. Flash Player doesn’t work on mobile devices, it was a bear on resources, a volatile security risk and made otherwise light web applications heavy. Flash Player should have gone the way of the Dodo long ago. Way back in 2010, Steve Jobs saw the end of Flash Player.
Both Firefox and Chrome have decided to block ads from serving that require Flash. If you haven’t heard recently, many browsers have blocked Flash.
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