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There is a trove of flash animation that is completely lost to history (lemmy.world)
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From Homestar Runner to Salad fingers to badgers, stick figure battles, and the End of Ze World, this — dare I call it an artform? — was a cultural touchstone for a generation.

Flash made vector animation available to the masses, and internet distribution of the relatively small video files was a piece of cake. With the filetype now essentially deprecated, the creators gone on to bigger and better things, the distribution sites shut down, it is a dead form. Most of it will be lost forever, although there may be someone archiving some of it for posterity.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So is Homestarrunner. Most of their flash stuff still works, too.

[–] eyes@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're still making videos on YouTube at least once a year too! One of the two brother chaps who created it went on to work on the animated show Gravity Falls too.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

They both also worked on Yo Gabba Gabba, though one (Matt) has definitely appeared to do a lot more writing/production work (and a good bit of voice work)