August 2009

The sad end of Summer

August 30 2009

The community-based Albino Blacksheep Tournament of Flash Artists 2009 is coming to a close with entries by Jimmy Egeland and SaltyPeach. Don't be afraid to leave comments for them after all their hard effort (and to sway the judges).

The winner will be announced soon and receive the rewards donated by the ABS community.

It's been a while

August 27 2009

I think this was the longest I went all Summer without updating the main page. Let's start with some STWPT fun.

Much harder than the first, the new Genius test. This will certainly put you in your place.

I don't think Surn was using Flash for his animation, if I remember what he wrote on ABS Forums correctly. I think he's using SoThink, but he's definitely exhausted it enough to make the big move Flash.

Candy Spaz Surn

When there's no main page update either I died or I am updating other parts of the site that are in desperate need of a tuneup. I updated other parts of the site, including wasting the last few days creating a Horoscopes section and then providing the code as a free horoscopes script for other sites. Don't be surprised if I open up more sections of the site that don't appeal to this audience whatsoever. I like coding random experiments 'til my eyes bleed.

Tomorrow night is the deadline for the TOFA 2009 finals between Jimmy and Salty. Call up Vegas to place your bets.

Reorganization

August 19 2009

Peter Foster (username: oddball-studios) recently joined Albino Blacksheep as an animator and there's some very impressive 3-D work with his first submission. He'll be looking for feedback in the comments.

Flies on a Wall oddball-studios

Your mixed reviews seemed to only have enouraged noob animator VanillaShipwrek to think he can start a series. Actually, besides the dollar-store microphone voices, there's something simple I like about it.

Missing Piece #3 with comments

August 16 2009

Baconneggs has been hit with the TOFA curse, which left SaltyPeach unopposed in the semi-finals. Watch it now (and comment).

Missin' Pink SaltyPeach

Boinky33 and Mr.Fizzy created some quick side experiments this week as a break from the epic longer animations they both have in the works.

Lastly for today, the noob files. They could use some harsh critique. Don't be shy.

The new comment system has been going pretty well except that most people are posting as Guests and not even setting their avatar. Remember, you don't even have to login to change your name or upload an avatar, but it is much better if you do login.

Missing Piece #2 Comment, comment, comment

August 13 2009

Here is Jimmy's "missing piece" animation for TOFA 2009. It's every children's cartoon rolled into one.

Spelunker Brothers Jimmy Egeland

I've been experimenting with Google FriendConnect over the last 24-hours, but most of your comments are not displaying due to some Google bugs. So now I'm trying out some experimental comments below the animations instead. Maybe they will stick. Feel free to really test it out and leave comments on all your favourite Flash Videos. Right now there are zero comments total with this system. Populate! (No "1st"s.)

Missing Piece #1 Vote, Vote, Vote

August 12 2009

In the 2009 TOFA (Tournament of Flash artists) semi-finals, the theme was "the missing piece", and here is Frozenfire's entry.

Father-Son Chat Frozenfire

Jackbliss missed the entrance deadline of TOFA altogether, but made a contribution for fun dedicated to the losers (consider this your consolation prize). I think we can expect Jackbliss to enter the next contest.

TOFA Blues jackbliss

In 24-hours or so, I'll post another entry on this page.

Cuboy

August 7 2009

Cuboy

Will Arbuckle released Cuboy 3, which I think is a pretty impressive use of Flash technology. You can head on over to watch it, or watch the whole Cuboy series in sequence.