Lookie what I found on my hard drive!

Yesterday  I was digging around my hard drive and found some ancient Flash animation. “Ancient Flash” is an oxymoron right? Like jumbo shrimp. Anyway,  I thought I’d lost this stuff a few computers ago so its a fun find for me. This is work I did for Rumpus animation, maybe 8 or 9 years ago. It [...]

Win a copy of Animate Pro: CartoonSmart and ToonBoom contest!

Yes, the grand prize is a a free copy of Animate Pro ($1999 value)!
THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED,  BELOW IS THE ORIGINAL POST. YOU CAN SEE THE WINNER BY CLICKING HERE
Here’s what we have in mind to enter and win!…
To Enter: Submit a short animation (30 seconds to 1 minute is plenty) in the style [...]

Coloring HTML Text in Flash (Actionscript 3 quick code note)

Just figured I’d post this real fast. Its not much code, but I’ve been color coding a lot of htmlText in Flash this week and coincidently just got an email about doing so…
var urlLinkColor:String = “CC4477″;
var textToColor:String = “Rules”;
var myTextVar:String = “CartoonSmart <font color=\u0022#” + urlLinkColor +”\u0022>” + textToColor + “</font>”;
myTextField.htmlText = myTextVar;
//myTextField  (already onstage) [...]

Maybe my favorite Vimeo animation to date!

I showed some of Malcolm’s work here before (aka Animalcolm) but I didn’t see this piece he did a couple years ago. On the creativity scale, he took it to 11. Check it out

This is a great roundup of art, but this is NOT retro-futurism

This blog has collected some awesome art, see all 20 or so pieces here, but I’m a little irked this is being called “retro futurism”. These are more like the opposite of retro futurism. Straight lines, grids, triangles, no. Not RF. Just because these pics are set in space doesn’t define them as futurism or [...]

Why I was wondering about YOU…(Adwords users might want to read this)

Thanks for giving me some feedback yesterday about where you all first heard about CartoonSmart. Here’s why I was wondering, and yeah obviously it has to do with $$$…
I pay Google A LOT of money for advertising. I’ve written a couple times before about my love / hate relationship with PPC ads. I love traffic. [...]

This animation makes me wish I were a fulltime student again…

Here’s a great short animation from David Forest, who spent 8 months on pre-production and about 3 months on the actual production and post-production. What a schedule… You, college kids don’t think you have a lot of free time, but oh, you do!

David got a lot right here in his final graduation project…

Time: Around [...]

A poll! Just one quick question: How’d you hear about CartoonSmart…

Thanks!

Holy fan-video! Check out this animation!

Thanks to CartoonBrew for pointing this out. For comparison, Gabe Askew’s homemade music video for this Grizzly Bear song…

…And then the band’s version is on YouTube.

Bart Simpson “officially” allowed to be black!

I know some of my visitors were too young to remember when the Simpsons first aired, so here’s a little history. The show was HUGE!! Despite its almost worldwide recognition today, its no longer a craze. It hasn’t been in probably 18 years, but there was a time when it was over the top popular. [...]