Is there anywhere you can watch these old flash creations like Xiao Xiao and Homestar Runner with the original vector graphics? The reproductions I’ve seen on YouTube are terrible, in part because of the obvious video artifacts that don’t preserve the edges, but also because it loses all interactivity.
When stick figures fought
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#72Is there anywhere you can watch these old flash creations like Xiao Xiao and Homestar Runner with the original vector graphics? The reproductions I’ve seen on YouTube are terrible, in part because of the obvious video artifacts that don’t preserve the edges, but also because it loses all interactivity .
If you can grab a copy of the SWF somewhere, Ruffle[0] is a decent Flash replacement and compatibility is pretty good[1].
[0]: https://ruffle.rs/
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#73This was one of the .swf animation saved in our disk, I also miss the demo scene.
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#74Is there anywhere you can watch these old flash creations like Xiao Xiao and Homestar Runner with the original vector graphics? The reproductions I’ve seen on YouTube are terrible, in part because of the obvious video artifacts that don’t preserve the edges, but also because it loses all interactivity .
The versions linked to in the article use the original vector graphics. In fact I think they're the original post location (NewGrounds). From there you can follow the link to the author's page, which has them all:
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I remember the white MacBook Core 2 Duo with 100% CPU, fans maxed out while watching YouTube 720p. This was months before the iPhone announcement. I can see why they killed it.
Because it was a security nightmare
No it was a usability nightmare. Watching Flash Youtube on Android technically worked but it was a horrible experience.
Google were ok with "works but janky af", but Apple weren't.
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Oh my god do you think it was selection bias? No way, I’m certain it was spooky action at a distance! /s
The fallacy in question would be sharpshooter's fallacy. Selection bias is when a sample misrepresents the population.
I kinda feel like these are two different views on the same basic 'mismatch-between-sampling-and-distribution' fallacy, what am I missing here?
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#77I 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".
I was just about to make the same comment! I never remembered the name of this software. Thank you so much for posting it!
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#78These 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
Same, I had been making stickman animations in powerpoint of all things, before a friend mentioned I should try FlashMX. I even made this terrible thing as my first foray into AS2: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/408469
I made a few Flash animations and a couple made it to and MTV show here in Latin America called "Flash MTV" that featured some of the animations people sent them, unfortunately I no longer have a copy of any of them and they don't seem to be online, although you can find some made by other people on YouTube.
My initial career idea was to become an animator but I found forums of senior animators complaining about low wages and long hours and it made me second guess myself about all that and I slowly picked up programming instead, I did get a copy of a great book called "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams, best known for directing "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", the book still lives in my library and I hold it in great steem.
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Because it was a security nightmare
No it was a usability nightmare. Watching Flash Youtube on Android technically worked but it was a horrible experience. Google were ok with "works but janky af", but Apple weren't.
We could have kept that creative environment (that seem to just disappear without any alternative to this day) while leaving videos to evolve as they did.
People here complain like they have issues with long term memory, but reality was - there was no real web video before. That apple had more issues than others was problem that should have been contained to apple walled garden alone. World was, is and will be much larger than that.
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#80These 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
I remember that video well
I think it made teenage me empathize a bit more with my parents, about how bleak can existence feel.