Flash animation still represents the cutting edge of Internet animation. Here are nine of the best on the net at the moment.
Whether you are new to Flash or a seasoned professional, these sites will make you sit back in wonder:
1. Bird on a Journey
A little bird flies on his way home to his lady, avoiding some pitfalls on the way. This brilliant animation combines drawing and photography to stunning effect, together with a weird and wonderful soundtrack.
2. Drum Machine
If you love oriental music – and drums – then you will love this animation. Seven Japanese drummers deliver the goods in this beautifully constructed piece of Flash. The skill and time that went in to this beggars belief!
3. Online Shopping
Be patient with this one. At first glance it looks like just another website that offers you household goods to buy. But hold on a second – didn’t that mug on special offer just fall over! That’s just the beginning of the fun – a joy to watch!
4. Icon War
These desktop icons decide that they don’t like each other any more. War breaks out! Who will be the ultimate winner as icon fights icon! Oh, the humanity! Extremely entertaining flash animation.
5. Kaleidoscope
This is an amazing pattern generating piece of flash animation. You can choose from lots of different varieties and the patterning effect follows your mouse around in a myriad of colors and shapes. Inspirational!
6. Silhouette Sounds
A single silhouette becomes several then becomes many, with each producing a different sound to produce a tune. Fantastic black and white animation is eye catching and very, very different!
7. Doorway
All the guy wants to do is get through the door! Unfortunately, there are lots of things that do not wish to grant him passage. Superb European style flash animation you will want to watch again and again.
8. Falling Dude
Superbly irritating but extremely watchable, this animation has a roughly drawn boy falling, and falling – oh, and then falling some more! You will love it!
9. Jackson Pollock
Ever seen a Jackson Pollock painting and thought “I can do that!” Well, here is your chance! Let your mouse do the walking as you produce works of art that the Saatchis will be after in no time at all!
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 am
Hvaen’t seen all…but the ones I saw were truly amazing! Great idea for an article too.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 am
Fanastic flash animation – yeah, how do they do it?
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Why is #8 there. That is awful.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
haha #8 is awesome
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Number 8 is delightfully racist. I think I’ll loop this one in the computer lab at school.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
This list is great for 2005. Some of these aren’t even real animation. Has the writer even seen anything outside of the occasional internet meme? FAIL!
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I liked number 5 and 9
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
The first one is friggin stupid. The Jackson Pollock is the best.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
There is much much better stuff on newgrounds.com this stuff is ok, but I’ve seen much better.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm
All of the Ninjai: The Little Ninja episodes deserve to be up there. superb artistry and flash skills.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
why is 8 racist? because the dude isn’t white? grow up people. its hilarious.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Yup, agreed, as a PoC, black man, Eurafrican, I have to agree! Don’t associate previous learned imagery with this…. if this guy is black I am a swimmy backed porpoise! What would he look like if the background was black? A racist sterotype of a snowman?
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
i couldn’t see all of them but they are great! especially the shopping online thingy!
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
too bad they did not give credit to the artist of each, rather than linking directly to the flash file, maybe have a link to their site as well? Bandwidth is expensive.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Hmmm… Check out Aladdin 3150 and Waterlollies. Both are excellent flash animations. In fact, Waterlollies is probably the best-animated flash I’ve ever seen; most of it is done frame-by-frame. By the way, Aladdin 3150 and Waterlollies can both be found on Newgrounds.com so you don’t have to search. As much.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Welcome to 4chan, 4 years ago.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:23 pm
You guys realize that some of those, like the drum one are made in 3D not flash… Just thought you should know your medium.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
@Sintax: tokyoplastic have long used swift 3d products which render to swf/vector for use in flash. Because it is still heavily dependent upon and embedded in a flash animation it thusly qualifies for the list.
@author: I’m glad you didn’t entitle this the Nine _Most_ Mind Blowing Flash Animations. some of them good, but a bit dated. search for greater examples, grasshopper.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Why isn’t Xiao Xiao on this list? that one may be old but it kicks ass.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
How can you list these movies and not mention newgrounds.com?
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
You, Tystarr, are a man of my kind. Newgrounds.com forever in flash animations!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:26 am
even this one is good.. infact very good i may say
http://cybour.50webs.com/Resources_ava.htm
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
its too long
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
bing bong. my favorites were the dancing/drumming while silhouettes and the pollock piece. absolutely rocking.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Haven’t seen them all,but they look like fun.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Loved them all. Thanks for sharing.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Some Suggested flashes; Aladdin 3150 (Kinda sad), The Composer (Awesome but sad), Dad’s at work (Hilarious), Blockhead’s Ghostmas (Totally Idiotic), and Waterlollies (Made by a veteran disney animator!)
June 7th, 2008 at 9:10 am
i like Jackson Pollock and I did enjoy a lot
June 7th, 2008 at 9:13 am
# 8 and the drumming one was amazing like really good!
June 7th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Fantastic animations. Thanks for sharing.
June 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
good idea very creative… stands out alot
June 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Unbelievable
June 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
This is a nice collection of animations. My daughter loved them too. Thanks.
June 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Posted this link in http://www.surfurls.com
June 9th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
What about the flash animations on my website http://www.miraclestudios.in
June 10th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
I had a fun time watching the animations. thanx.
I wonder..how do they do it??
June 10th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I defiantely thought this was an entertaining article. I remember when I made my first flash website, using Swish software, wow, in 14 years, it has evolved a lot!
June 13th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
This guy is one of the best flash creators on the net:
http://www.biteycastle.com/
June 24th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
For all the people that are asking how they are doing this, best bet is to seacrh for adobe flash CS3
June 29th, 2008 at 7:44 am
wow awsome
June 30th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Excellent article. No6 is brilliant.
November 5th, 2008 at 7:15 am
gluposti!Ja to mogu da napravim za 2 minute…sta ja sve imam u mom kompu od animacija ovo nije nista
February 1st, 2009 at 4:52 am
Excellent Spare To Kick
February 1st, 2009 at 5:08 am
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February 1st, 2009 at 5:11 am
maybe little kinda slacky but..good still heavenly godful
March 19th, 2009 at 12:58 am
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May 27th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Nice animations Drum Machine is the best though
October 7th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Its really nice, proud of you……..
October 28th, 2009 at 10:04 am
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November 5th, 2009 at 1:43 am
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