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Thanks To Our Sponsor: CrazyTalk Animator

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Swarr Puts Analog Age In Print

Saying Goodbye To Ricky

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his last web comic is pretty telling), but I’d rather focus on his life, and what he gave us.

I was lucky enough to work with Ricky on Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island. He served as the storyboard supervisor, and he was extremely dedicated and focused. I remember his easy smile, and a surprising, thoughtful opinion, from a relatively quiet guy. He drew fast, and pitched some of the weirdest gags I’d ever seen. He obviously had a deep well of imagination to draw from, and a passion for pushing a pencil.

I hadn’t been in touch with Ricky for the last few years, but in 2009 I connected with him while he was working on the Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy project for Seth McFarlane. He’d recently just been promoted to the director slot, and he’d shed his pencil in favor of a digital tablet. It seemed like the world was his oyster, but it seems like things turned in the other direction for Ricky.

I’ve chosen to remember the guy who was thriving and enjoying life, and I’m thankful for the time I spent working alongside him, and writing about him here on CHF. Adios, Ricky.

Online Animation Pioneer Edd Gould Passes Away

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Edd Gould is no longer with us. That’s a mighty blow. Edd was a major pioneer in online animation, with massive followings on YouTube and Newgrounds, and one funny ass dude. His second bout with leukemia proved more arduous than the first, and he passed away on Sunday. We’ve posted Edd’s hysterical work here a number of times in the past, and I recall how pleasant he was the first time we exchanged emails back in 2008. I tried to politely explain that his shorts (which at the time we rougher than his more recent work) weren’t a perfect fit for CHF. He took this news like a pro, and then went on and built a huge empire on YouTube that proved the error of my ways. By 2010, he was on the BBC, and at the time of his death, he’d amassed 400,000 YouTube subscribers. A real loss of a true talent. Here’s a tribute from his regular collaborators Tom Tomska Ridgewell and Matt Hargreaves:

Persistent Peril Projects Flash Animation

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Brighton-based Persistent Peril recently produced animation for a live event. Their work was projected onto the side of a castle to mark the end of Camp Bestival. All character animation was produced in Flash, and below is the ‘animation edit.’ Click here to watch footage from the closing event.

Mondo Launches MondoMedia.com

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htf on mondomediaMondoMedia.com, which is now stuffed full of hundreds of animated shorts from series like Dick Figures, Happy Tree Friends and Gundarr. In fact, there’s already an exclusive, all-new Happy Tree Friends episode up on the site. We’ve got big plans for the site, so register for the newsletter and keep your eyes fixed on your email inbox and NEVER BLINK AGAIN! It may help to drink your own sweat, but I’m not an expert on that topic.

Platform Festival Kicks Off Friday in Downtown LA

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platform at redcatPlatform Festival re-emerges. The initial event in Portland was a smashing success, and now a 3 day event at the REDCAT theater brings this celebration of multi-platform animation back to life.

At noon on Saturday, I’ll be moderating a panel featuring the editor of Vimeo, Jason Sondhi, and Lenora Hume, who is producing animated content for Shut Up! Cartoons, a new funded channel on YouTube. Click here to buy tickets.

YouTube Animation Pros Will Unlock Secrets To Success

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youtube animation prosthis form (type “N/A” in any field that isn’t applicable) and if there’s space available, your invite will then be confirmed.


MAGFest’s Flash Animation Super Panel

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This past weekend, Flash animation gods joined forces to share their knowledge with a rapt audience in Maryland. Assembled for the MAGFest Flash Animation Super Panel were Arin Hanson (Egoraptor), Chris O’Neill (Oney), Zach Hadel (psychicpebbles), Will Stamper (Stamper) and Cory (SpazkidIn3D). One question that caught my attention was “At one point did animation start paying the bills?” Oney’s answer is right – “once you start getting millions of views.” Here’s the best video (taken by animator Sphoje) I could find from the 1 hour event, and you may want to crank up the volume to hear it all clearly. (and you might want to check out the Game Grumps panel too).

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Titmouse Puts 5 Second Day On The Big Screen

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titmouse 5 secondsFor the first time ever Titmouse is bringing their 5 Second Animation project to a theater. Tonight at the Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre at 7:30 pm in Hollywood, animation fans will be treated to the creations of the Titmouse staff. For several years now, the Titmouse team has carved out work hours for their artists to make whatever they want.

You can buy tickets online for $11 (and $9 for students).

Wacom Unveils Their iPad Pen

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Seems like this product shoulda been in the market a couple years ago, but I suppose better late than never, eh? It’s the Intuos Creative Stylus, Wacom’s $99 “iPad pen.” According to the website, it operates just like a Cintiq pen, passing through information “about pressure, tilt and rotation.” I imagine there’s discussions at Wacom about this product cannibalizing their Cintiq line of products, but I can see this one jumping off the shelves at an incredibly fast rate.

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Calling All Canadians -The Pitch Window is Open

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Mondo Media and Canada’s Bite TV want your brains! Wait, that’s not right – they want what’s inside your brains. Pitches are currently being accepted for Bite on Mondo, a new, $3 million dollar animated shorts program that will initially be sourcing 30 Canadian pilots aimed at YouTube. The project, which was just announced today, is a collaboration with YouTube that plans to surface the next break-out animated series aimed at teens and young adults. Head over to the pitch site for more details.

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Flash-animated Feature Named #1 Animated Film of All-Time

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The UK newspaper The Guardian just revealed their Top 10 Animated Movies list, atop which sits Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir. As we revealed here 4 years ago, the project was produced with a combination of Flash animation, traditional animation and CGI. Read our interview with animation director Yoni Goodman.

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Get Your Tickets For Titmouse’s 5 Second Animation Night

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Titmouse Inc., the studio producing animated TV series like The Venture Bros., Superjail, and Black Dynamite, has booked the famous Egyptian theater for their upcoming 5 Second Animation Night. The screening features original shorts from Titmouse animators who’ve been given unlimited license to create whatever they want. The one-time-only screening is at 7:30 on February 21st and tickets are free for American Cinematheque members, and $11 otherwise.

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Katie Khaos Comic Crafted in Flash

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Dave Redl, the creator of Family Pants, is animating in an unexpected way. Katie Khaos is his new comic strip, animated in Flash, and delivered as animated GIFs. Check out the first installment over on his Tumblr. Cool application of the software, Dave!
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Living Painting Spins Endlessly

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David Vandervoort recently teamed up with the artist team known as artist team Kozyndan for a museum piece that was animated in Flash. Working off an image produced by Kozyndan, Vandervoort created a ‘living painting’ after cutting up the work in Photoshop. It’s an endless loop now housed in the Edinburgh Museum:

CHF Is Ten Years Old!

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In 2004, I was working at Warner Bros. TV Animation, hoping to convince the senior management that Flash was a viable TV production tool. Flash was already in use for TV (¡Mucha Lucha!, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Atomic Betty), but we had some convincing to do internally. So I started collecting the data, in the form of a blog (first post was super geeky!), hosted by blogspot, but then I bought coldhardflash.com a month later.

Then I started making my case. A post titled ‘Flashing the Studios’ was the centerpiece of my argument. Until that post, there wasn’t much certainty about what series were using Flash, but after some digging and emailing, I’d compiled a fairly impressive list. A year later, I was producing Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island in Flash for WB, and I’d produced the pilot of Johnny Test, also with Flash, which continues on until this day.

Over time, focus of the site shifted, aiming more at independent productions, shorts from students and even feature films. But the interviews were my favorite. I only have an undergraduate degree, but I feel like the dozens of interviews I conducted with animators around the world constitute my Masters thesis. Favorites were John K (Ren & Stimpy), The Brothers Chaps (Homestar Runner), Evan and Gregg Spiridellis (JibJab), Tom Fulp (Newgrounds), Adam Phillips, Jorge Gutierrez (El Tigre, The Book of Life), Todd Kauffman (Grojband), and Jonathan Gay, the co-creator of Flash.

I would do hours of prep work, crafting detailed questions, sometimes emailing them, and occassionally interviewing over the phone. I asked questions my audience would want to hear, but more importantly I asked what I wanted to learn. Then, a funny thing happened along the way, I ended up working with or for many of these teams I’d interview for the site. It was some sort of wish fulfillment. If you look at the list of most common tags used on the site (see below), you can see the proof. I now work out of Six Point Harness Studios, for Mondo Media, who bought CHF a few years back! I just helped the Weebl team release their digital video collection and I’m producing a TV series with SuperNews! creator Josh Faure-Brac. It wasn’t intentional, but it all makes sense now, looking back.

Huge thanks to our sponsors throughout the years, guest bloggers, designers, tech support and of course, the readers. Here’s to the next 10 years!

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Newgrounds Screening at Animation Breakdown

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At this weekend’s Animation Breakdown event, Newgrounds takes over at 10:30 pm on Sunday night. Hosted at Cinefamliy on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, the screening will feature a Q&A with Tom Fulp, who co-founded this seminal video sharing site that’s helped launch the careers of animators like Jason Steele (Charlie the Unicorn), Ed Skudder (Dick Figures) Arin Hanson (Egoraptor) and Alan Becker (Animator vs. Animation). Get your tickets at this link. Hope to see you there!

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