Why is this forum so Goddamned dead?

You'd think there'd be more 2D forum activity around these parts.

Here, have a little WIP animation I'm working on for reasons you shall discover.. one day.

http://www.garry.tv/thrik/ballanimation.php

No idea how to continue the.. uh.. plot.. from here. There's also no sound yet. I've mainly just spent a ridiculous amount of time getting to grips with animating frame by frame in Flash.

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It's not supposed to be funny, it's learning to do frame by frame animation at a reasonably fluid pace~ since the Thrik is not too hot at it yet.

That in itself took ages, making a funny wasn't really on the top of my mind while making it. Though I still need to do twice the length I've got already to satisfy college.

It's all frame by frame, although I was able to use tweening for the actual physical movement of the birds and clouds in the sky -- I still did their wing movements frame by frame though, which was fairly simple.

I can't wait for next year of the course where 3D animation is focused on rather than 2D. The latter is fun and all, but it isn't half a pain in the arse at times due to there being no perspective.

Got it mostly done animation wise, and I'm happy to proclaim that I hope to never do 2D animation like this again -- it is such a pain in the arse. 3D is clearly superior.

http://www.garry.tv/thrik/projectstuff/testversion/

Put some shit sounds/music over the top, also made the Photoshop version of the site and shit. Still need to html/css the latter, and the animation could use some brief voice acting if anyone here feels up to speaking for the ball.

(please)