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So I guess .DV does work on YouTube! o_o This is a fun little experimental Flash cartoon that I started working on last semester for my high-school Graphic Design 2 class, using my Wacom tablet. This is different for me in that, while I've done a handful of sprite Flash movies in the past, I've never really made a serious hand-drawn animation. Well, a stick flick when I was 13, but that doesn't count.

Originally I was working on Flash CS3 on one of the classroom's Macs, but then I moved the project to Flash 8 on the Windows XP side of my Macbook Pro. I finished animating it before the winter break and I finished sound on it this January. The problem with adding sound, though, is that stupid bug in Flash where the audio gets out of sync in the exported .SWF. You'd think that after so many versions it'd be fixed, but no, it's still there. The work-around I used for Soul Knights vs. Quam Singulari when I had the same problem during its development (adding ActionScript frames at tactical spots in the timeline to stop everything and play on the next frame) didn't work here. So if I wanted to have any sort of audio in my animation, I had to bring the project back to the school Mac, open it in Flash CS3, export the SWF into a Quicktime file, import it to iMovie, add all the sound there, save and export. Doing this took a toll on the quality and frame-rate and, ironically, the file-size increased dramatically. The result was a 362 MB .DV file. I feared any more compression would damage the quality and frame-rate even more, so I've left it as is. I didn't think about uploading it until now, though, remembering how YouTube can accept almost any video format now, so now I can present it to people without passing them a 362 MB file. =D

Some of the sounds I got off the internet and couple others from GarageBand. Yes, I did the chicken's voice myself. XD

Software:

Flash CS3
Flash 8
iMovie
Audacity

Hardware:

A Mac PowerPC or something
Macbook Pro w/ Windows XP Pro
Wacom Intuos3 4x6 Pen Tablet

Creative rights go to me, Juan Diego de Obarrio, or my online handle Neo Link. (less info)