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I have used Flash before.
I used Flash in a documentary movie
called Flock of Dodos
which is about the Creative Design
vs. Evolution controversy
So I had to add some sequences, like
explaining why rabbits eat their own poo.
So Flash is the first thing...
I also did a film title for a movie
called Never Say Macbeth.
I did the entire thing in Flash by myself.
It was an independent movie so
they really didn't have a big budget.
And it was kind of fascinating
because it actually came out to be
I wound up doing the entire film title.
I thought, God, a generation later,
I wouldn't have dreamed you could
have done a film title by yourself.
One of my friends showed me in an afternoon,
and I picked it up pretty quickly.
I got a good Cintiq.
It's interesting, I'm not as adept
at reusing all the heads and everything,
so I wind up animating more fully
than some people do.
But I like doing that.
It's fun when you work very quickly.
One of my mentors is Richard Williams,
and *** always used to say
"In the end, sometimes
the best way to do something
is the hard way."
So rather than doing alot
of re-use and stuff I would just
wind up just animating it fully.
But I like the dexterity
and the speed with which you can work
... picking your own colors.
The fact that you can have it
right in front of you.
I hate to do one of those
"When I started in this business..."
But when I started in this business
in the 70s the fastest
you could get was -
you had to get your stuff done by 5pm
because there was this very moody
gopher/runner who would take it
to the camera guy.
The camera guy would shoot it over night.
It would go to developing in the morning
and you would get it by 1pm
the following afternoon.
That's the fastest you could ever expect it.
At the Fleischer Studio in the 30s,
every animator had a bucket
of developer by their desk
and after you would film
your pencil test, you just took
the magazine and dunked it
in the bucket youself and looked at it
before it turned black because Max
was too cheap to pay for the fixative.
And that was testing back then.
So the fact that I can do this
instantaniously in front of me in color,
is just amazing.
In 1874, Mark Twain
actually told friends,
"don't let this get around to the other writers,
but I really like using a typewriter."