One of the websites I decided to review is one that is infamous for it's Flash animation: HomestarRunner.com!
Now, I remember as a kid in junior high logging online every week to get my fill of a new Homestar Runner episodes, but at the time I just thought it was a cool online cartoon. Of course, it is a cool online cartoon, but now I know that it is a Flash based cartoon! Before taking this class, I had NO CLUE how hard Flash animation was (or even what it meant to be "Flash based"), but after making my own animations, I have much more admiration for all of the awesome Flash animations I come across online!
Homestar Runner was created by two artists: Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel. The site, which is made up of largely Flash animations, features short movies, games, weekly episodes, downloads, along with an online store and email section. Of the whole site, the main homepage is my favorite page.
On the homepage, there are six buttons to the left of the page that take you to the six main sections of the website. As you scroll over the buttons, a different Flash animation plays in middle of the page! They are short little animations, but they can be so addicting to watch! On top of the six different animations, you can change the theme of the homepage, which will have six NEW animations that play. Overall, the site features 25 different homepage themes, each with their own set of six animations!
I think this is a cool concept, and I might want to try this for my website (of course, I would use only one theme, but I would like to have a different animation play as the mouse scrolls over each of my main pages). I know it would take extra work, but so far, I really enjoy Flash, and could spend hours making animations in it!
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