Just found this funny nerd cartoon on SuperDeluxe, check it out.

While you’re there, though it’s not animation, Maria Bamford’s series is fantastically funny.

Just finished an animation. Had an idea this weekend and it was just short enough to pull off in the remaining two days of the long weekend. The result is below.

Description: Obama and Mccain go head to head on their vice presidential selections.

WARNING: includes juvenile humor.

Update: I posted this rather quickly this morning but I just wanted to add a few notes of credit. My wife reminded me that this idea probably germinated from seeing this fantastic piece on health insurance companies about a month ago. The idea of starting some political animations was spurred on by a good friend and animator, Josh Carrollhach.  I rushed to complete this idea before the end of the weekend, but we may be doing some more new animations in the weeks to come.

The rapid production of this piece was possible, in large part, due to a couple of Flash extensions. One is a tool that I’ve already posted for public consumption, Queasy Tools. The other is one that I currently have in progress which is very similar to Animonger’s AnimSlider, but it deals strictly with frame labels. My lip-syncing process is heavily borrowed from Chris Georgenes’ lip-syncing technique in Flash. This new extension allows me to easily use frame labels (or comments) to navigate a graphic symbol and change mouth or eye shapes. It requires no extra setup, other than adding some labels. I’ll be posting that some time in the near future. I’ll likely make a video tutorial to show it in action as well.

Cold Hard Flash has announced an Animation Studio Directory!

You can find our listing here.

These should cut down on the dragging and scrolling and searching. I got tired of dragging a selection across hundreds of frames only to lose it all with one slip of the mouse.

• Select Empty Layers command
• Select Frames to Start command: this takes your selection and selects all the frames before it as well
• Select Frames to End command: this takes your selection and selects all the frames after it as well

Downloads

1. Select Empty Layers.mxp
2. SelectFrames_toStartAndEnd.mxp

Queasy Tools is a new set of quick and easy tools for Flash designers and animators. This panel provides the fastest way to create tweened animation with easing in Flash as well as putting together a set of common design functions in one location. Feature list and free download below…

UPDATE:

Newer version (1.5.0) available here.

Screenshot

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