Flash animation

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Flash animation, a technology and methodology for crafting interactive, animated digital content, primarily targets the World Wide Web. It emerged in the late 1990s, reaching its peak popularity by the mid-2000s. The main characteristic of flash animation is its use of vector-based drawings, which contribute to its sleek, graphic look. The technology accommodates the incorporation of bitmaps, raster-based artwork, and video, enabling the production of interactive series or shorts. Nevertheless, substandard flash animations may cause choppy movements and sudden shifts. Originating from the online realm, flash animation has successfully migrated to conventional media platforms like television series and commercials. Globally recognized animation studios widely employ this technology, which has played a pivotal role in generating viral Internet^[1] cartoons. The process of creating flash animations has been streamlined with software such as Adobe Animate, which supports output in .swf format and provides tools for character rigging and cartoon creation.

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Adobe Flash animation (formerly Macromedia Flash animation and FutureSplash animation) is an animation that is created with the Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) platform or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. The term Adobe Flash animation refers to both the file format and the medium in which the animation is produced. Adobe Flash animation has enjoyed mainstream popularity since the mid-2000s, with many Adobe Flash-animated television series, television commercials, and award-winning online shorts being produced since then.

In the late 1990s, when bandwidth was still at 56 kbit/s for most Internet users, many Adobe Flash animation artists employed limited animation or cutout animation when creating projects intended for web distribution. This allowed artists to release shorts and interactive experiences well under 1 MB, which could stream both audio and high-end animation.

Adobe Flash is able to integrate bitmaps and other raster-based art, as well as video, though most Adobe Flash films are created using only vector-based drawings, which often result in a somewhat clean graphic appearance. Some hallmarks of poorly produced Adobe Flash animation are jerky natural movements (seen in walk-cycles and gestures), auto-tweened character movements, lip-sync without interpolation and abrupt changes from front to profile view.

Adobe Flash animations are typically distributed by way of the World Wide Web, in which case they are often referred to as Internet cartoons, online cartoons, or web cartoons. Web Adobe Flash animations may be interactive and are often created in a series. An Adobe Flash animation is distinguished from a Webcomic, which is a comic strip distributed via the Web, rather than an animated cartoon.

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