Kieran Nolan » Flash

WarangUtan

kieran — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:44:18 +0000

Found these great flash cartoons on youtube, by animator Hiroshi Namiki. All feature this ape with a snot bubble hanging out of his nose, who mostly spends his time harassing a bulldog, which has similar nose hygiene issues. The use of sound adds to the surreal humor, particularly the canned laughter and applause. The same animator also has a series of short sixteen second pieces about a mischievous piece of sushi called Okapa-makiko. Anyhows, it's exercise time with WarangUtan and company...

DIY Bosco Vids

kieran — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:53:43 +0000

Here's a very seasonal piece of viral multimedia marketing where you can send a personalised video message from Bosco, an icon of Irish children's tv in the 80s and 90s, to your friends. Over 400 video clips were recorded for this, all running through a flash interface and xml backend. Great fun! - link

Benetton Flipbook Deluxe

kieran — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:17:24 +0000

Over the last couple of weeks I've been using this great flipbook creator from benettonplay.com with a beginners animation class. It was developed by Fabrica, Bennetton's R&D center. A clever feature of this little web app is that in addition to publishing your flipbook as part of an online gallery, you can also export it as a PDF, allowing you to print and out and get busy with your scissors and glue to construct a real, on-paper flipbook. Here's one of the animations from the students, the whole 'stickman meets a grizzly end' theme was fairly popular!