MASS

A cartoon that shows what happends when cheapness and rivalry take a turn for the worst. Can you pick up all the symbolism? I hope you enjoy this, ALOT of work went into making it. Including actionscript, which I hate.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Foamy
• Mass
• ZekeySpaceyLizard
• Star
• Syndicate

[erzzr]

This is amazing, best flash video I have seen in a long time(if ever).

enough said

P.S: I too, hate actionscript (especially 30

[zekeyspaceylizard]

i'll be honest, i dont hate it as much as I did when i made this cartoon! i still hate it alot, but not with the hopping-on-one-foot-sacrificin­g-a-goat-for-satan-while-lava-­flies-out-my-butt insane hatred I once had for it.

[ArtieTSMITW]

Absolutely my favorite flash video on the internet. I know this is supposed to relate more to those animators on Newgrounds, but I relate to it as a Youtube user. I've told you before, zekey, but I'll tell you again: amazing work. Favorited, 5'd, etc.

[zekeyspaceylizard]

thanks man. just so you know, each time you put out a new vid, i show it to my buddies here and we all have a good laugh. i saw you were trying to get cast at NBC. thats pretty friggin great. i hope you get a part in somethin! nbc has the only shows i watch these days, so i'm sure i'd recognize you in one of them easily!

[monkeychocolates]

the songs called She by subtle :)

[Shyion12]

@Shyion12

In the end, they both fall victim, and they both lose. Why? Because they are both what is wrong with the art community, or any creative community. They refuse to accept times change, they refuse to accept one day they aren't going to be the public favorite, and will have to take a back seat.

The video isn't saying mainstream is terrible. The video isn't saying a paticular art style angsty or not, is bad. Its saying the cycle of blame, and intolerance, is what is bad.

[Shyion12]

@Shyion12

The Rainbow man becomes a stepping for the Angsty Man's art, and eventually, Rainbow man is overshadowed by the next fad. The Rainbow Man now has two options: find a new job, and do art as a passion and side. Or, he can make his stand against new art he views as "bad", just as the angsty man viewed his the rainbow mans. The cycle of hatred and lack of understanding.

The Rainbow man picks the latter, sells his house, goes into poverty making a expensive looking plaque out of hatred.

[Shyion12]

theres something I don't think many people are getting. I believe the entire animation, in its self, is a satire of how one views any opposing art.

The man with rainbows and flowers represents what a normal animator would view as there "acceptable, independant art".

The Angsty Man represents the next generation, the next "fad", that happens, an inevitablity. Rainbow Man built his life on his own view of art, and expected something that is ever changing, to make his entire life on.

[Intrafacial86]

I remember when I first saw this on ABS years ago. It speaks the truth across all forms of media and art. The big names and mainstream stuff always get in the way of the genuinely creative material.

I'm actually gonna use this vid in my upcoming English 200 paper where we have to write a rhetorical critique about a video of our choice that has a "message" of some sort. It is just too perfect.

I always love your stuff, dude.

[diamondeggplant]

What song is this.....I know it's by Subtle because I watched the video before asking like a smart little boy :P

[lykenthejeeb]

thats very cooh!:) i liked it

[RetroNoodles]

i love this video. but i thought it also was refering to how people online get jelous and spiteful at artists that are innocent and just doing art. the whole making money thing , and pageviews .... internet can really suck sometimes.