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Loved this stuff so much. I miss my summers off from school, where I would never think of a day gone as time "spent".
These animations got me into Flash and soon after into programming thanks to ActionScript, one copycat music video that maybe made even stronger impression in teenage me was a sad adult-themed music video from 2004, I just found ii after looking online for a bit: I love death - Lodger (Finnish band) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BoFQV4jXun4
Macromedia Flash had probably the best UX of all the programs ever created. It all goes downhill from there.
I sometimes wonder why such concepts went away, and everything became far more complicated.
Macromedia Flash had probably the best UX of all the programs ever created. It all goes downhill from there.
I feel that way about a lot of things. Maybe it's just nostalgia...but heck we had Flash, Frontpage, VB,...we were spoiled. I sometimes wonder why such concepts went away, and everything became far more complicated.
Some things are much better today, like Procreate.
I used to make animations with https://pivotanimator.net/ a lot as a kid, trying to make fight scenes like these. A sort of related thing is ToriBash, which is kind of a multiplayer 3D animation game where you fight each other by making decisions on which muscles to contract at each time interval. Loved this stuff so much. I miss my summers off from school, where I would never think of a day gone as time "spent".
If memory serves, the sound effects were a fantastic touch on top of the multiplayer hilarity of that game.
Looks like there's still an active community around it today, based on a cursory YouTube search.
Ah, XiaoXiao. Under the amazingly named `E:\Storage\Old\Fun\old\XiaoXiao` I have fight (xiaoxiao1).avi, XiaoXiao_City_Plaza.swf, and xiaoxiao2.swf - xiaoxiao9.swf
Macromedia Flash had probably the best UX of all the programs ever created. It all goes downhill from there.
I was knee-deep in the flash animation scene through the late 90s early 00s, and I don't remember anyone calling anyone 'Flashers'. China-only I suppose. I did think Stick Death came out before Xiao Xiao?
Definitely remember Stick Death in highschool around '99-'01, 2+ years before this flashers group supposedly started.