November 24 2008 Turkeys

November 21 2008 Cuddle Bubble

Molkman, an ABS member from Germany, specializes is the technique of mixing animation with video, often requiring both Flash and a video editor like Premiere. Here are other animations in the same style.

You don't need to be an animator to achieve this effect. Webcam software can do it for you automagically.

Remember to come back to this site on U.S. Thanksgiving for the Turkey update.

November 9 2008 Pay attention, John Titor

Alex Traynor also created Pixelated 1 and Pixelated 2 in 2006.

While on the subject, here are some animations off the top of my head that involve time travel - both past and future. I'm sure I've missed a few.

November 5 2008 Noooooo!

If I actually updated the Flash directories, this would be a tough categorization dilemma. A Political cartoon in animutation format.

ABS Member boinky33 (of Hanna Barbera Theatre 1 and 2 fame) whose non-Interwebs name is Jeffrey Davis presents his résumé as a Flash cartoon.

October 31 2008 Halloween 2008 Mega Update

October 25 2008 Growing update of Halloween Contest finalists

LazyBoy and Groovemastercox have their ABS Halloween contest submissions in a little early. Watch this space. [Updated.]

Nicol3's animation will be posted soon, but her animation has no title, which makes things a little difficult to post. I could make up a title, but I'll wait.

Stay tuned for the Halloween update to be posted on the night of the 31st.

October 17 2008 It's all in the details

Professor Fate's newest Flash series.

Professor Fate is a busy guy with many animation ideas up his sleeve. That's a good thing, but this gift comes with the downside of many unfinished projects and series. Here are some Flash series that have yet to progress past episode 1.

There will be a "Mindy 2". It's on Andrew's to-do list.

Perhaps, it is best Mikey chose to go out with a bang. In theory, this would make a great series, but just like time travel, the bing bang and other theories, the consequences are best left to the imagination rather than disastrous experimentation.

After 10 episodes of his famous Drawn Dream series, Tim felt it was best to try other things.

We have not seen the last of Metaldart.

Ryoshenron should have no trouble sticking to writing the Boy and Robot series.

Unfortunately, once you write the lyrics to something like The Llama Song, there is no escaping it. Not even in your new animations.

October 11 2008 Better than nothing

The Halloween Flash contest is taking place on absforums.com, and you can submit with no nomination required. This should keep everyone busy this month if school and work hasn't already consumed all traces of temperal overabunance.

Things are getting quite busy in the offline world, but I'm still considering "blogging" here to keep a faster update flow without feeling the necessity to post sub-par submissions. As long as everyone is okay with hearing about mundane day-to-day events.

September 26 2008 Haboob

The third installment of the Ecologically-friendly young rabbits is now released, but be sure you've seen Eco Bunnies 1 and Eco Bunnies 2.

CodeMonkey();, whose name may break your Website code if typed, challenges you to complete his game.

Super Mario true to Family Guy style, by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.

Your opinion matters. Did these ABS members improve their animation skills over the year? First, Lennox from 2007 followed by Lennox in 2008.

Now, Lord Zeebmork's Übercat in 2007, followed by Snail Jesus in 2008.

September 21 2008 And the winner is...

A weakness that evolves into a strength.

  • Smoko
    Andrew Kepple
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Andrew "TooMuchSpareTime" Kepple is the winner of the Tournament of Flash Artists 2008. On top of prize money, he has won the games Crysis and Bioshock to make certain he has no more spare time to beat all in 2009, although he may have time to be a judge next year.

Bioshock Box Art Crysis Box Art

During the tournament Andrew Kepple pulled off three Epic-possible non-talkie animations, made use of every second of the time limits, and proposed a new flash series for ABS.

TOFA 2008 Winner's Signature

Kepple's challenger was Groovemastercox, a fairly new member to ABS who created Ninjas in our School Systems part 1 and part 2. Groovemastercox put up a great fight for all five rounds against many ABS veterans, but ran out of time in the final round to add sound for his last entry.

With not enough time and no sound, this is Groovemastercox's entry for "a weakness that evolves into a strength".

  • Shake
    Groovemastercox
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TOFA 2008 is now complete (although Professor Fate will be finishing his incomplete submissions), so onto the next contest - for Halloween. Now is the time to sign up for ABS if you want to participate later.

September 12 2008 Get back to school

Unauthored Hoax proposes a new series to ABS.

Stay tuned for the winner of TOFA 2008.

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