Animation Run Amuck

Attack #1Attack #2Attack #3Animator vs. Animation is a Flash animation that shows what happens when creative differences arise between the drawer and the drawee. In this one, an animator quickly becomes hostile to a freshly-minted stick figure drawing, which takes umbrage to the violence, using the environment (Macromedia Flash itself) to retaliate. It’s very cleverly done and very convincingly animated, giving the impression that the figure is actually fighting for its very life, using bow and arrow against an increasingly violent animator eager to be rid of a creation run amuck.

In the scene on the right, the animator has drawn a masive ray gun, with which to shoot the stick figure, doing considerable damage to the Flash environment itself. The figure fashions a water pistol from available tools and short circuits the gun, causing it to explode and rupturing the storyboard GUI components above. The battle continues in this vein, with each side utilizing all available tools to do the other side in.

It’s very clever stuff and reminds me of the karate animations released a few years ago—see Xiao Xiao 7 (karate Flash) (earthli News). The other Xiao Xiao movies are still available.