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Layout for Gravity Pending (Animation) | This is the format for the original flash film in 2018. (This page of static images will not translate well to either mobile devices or pads.) Gravity Pending was released as a film through my YouTube channel on 3/11/23.

Sketch Ideas for Gravity Pending (Animation) | Sketchpads are used to generate ideas for multiple projects. Some drawings are taken into Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash for further development as animation. Animation is labor intensive but less rewarding than either painting or drawing.

Exploration of Analog Horror: I recently discovered the concept of analog horror as a form of internet folk horror creation. This media, though digital in execution, is meant to resemble degraded VHS tape and is often passed off as found footage or public service announcements. My flipbook Flash animations (2008 through the early 2010s) formed around a similar lo-tech aesthetic.

I saw Flash shockwave films (SWFs) as workarounds for experimental animation, to which experimental sound was added. In hindsight, analog horror was an obvious development given the low barrier to entry and the broad appeal of jump scare horror. Such aesthetics marry perfectly to crude, dreamlike nightmares, which are (as in my examples) further enhanced by being of short duration.

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