Why have there been no updates?

Well, Mark is moving back home to Hawaii and I'm busy doing my schoolwork. But hopefully there'll be some more tests posted soon!

Don't Download This Song.

Great music video for Wierd Al by Bill Plympton

http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/

A great site for Traditional Animation....

Lots of tips abound here. I still haven't gotten through the whole thing!

http://handdrawnnomadzone.blogspot.com/

The Ministry of Silly Walks....

I was inspired by Pascal...so I think I'm going to try to do a few of these each day. They take me less than a half hour to crank out and they're fun!

Sad walk

GumDrop

ultrashock.com

www.ultrashock.com

Look under tutorials. THere's some interesting tuts on cell shading in flash...might be useful for coloring later ;)

I finished tying na inbetweening test with Mark's file. Overall it wasn't so bad. Flowing things like hair and the tail was problematic. I did do most of it keyframed and tried to use as little to none of Mark's drawn part. Just experimenting to see how much I could get away with minimally...

Mark, I can't save the file out as quicktime. can you post it here for me?

Here's another great site of Flash/Animation/Illustration designers...

http://www.ghostbot.com/

Graham's Kera Crawl

Some sketches for ideas...

While Mark's spending all his time making shings move, I took a bit of time to come up with some story ideas....










Here's some random ideas on how the monkey could distract the Monk...all ideas welcome ;)






And now...a crazy damn monkey....

Stories about Monkies and Monks....

There's a lot of material out there. The Monkey was very prominent in asian mythology. I don't see the short going the way of fantasy, but it always pays to do research for ideas!

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/204340.ctl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West
http://www.hanabatake.com/research/monkey.htm

http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/chinese-mythology.php?deity=MONKEY

Awesome Glenn Keane Drawings...

Glenn Keane is awesome...here's some drawings by him...'nuff said...

http://theartofglenkeane.blogspot.com/

The John K. Show...

Myself, Mark and our friend Hanna went to the John K. show in San Francisco last Saturday. I was really impressed with the way Flash was utilized in his projects, especially the new video he did for Weird Al.

Link

He said it was "a new way of doing Flash". TO me, it just looks like he drew out every pose...just like in traditional 2d. I see some tweening here and there, but mostly it's pretty fluid. I'd really like for the project to look like this...but it's important to test the possibilities first. After all, Fosters looks nothing like this and it's pretty damn cool.

Here's some more cool flash links:

http://www.coldhardflash.com/
http://flashfilmmaker.com/forums/index.php
http://www.biteycastle.com/