Tag: Animation

Cool Websites on the Internet You Should Check Out

There’s a lot of places on the net, and not all of them are cool. Some of them are really big and are bloated with ads and everything, but some of them are smaller, but also have a lot of neat things to check out and a lot of things that you can sink your time into. Here’s just a few of them:

BetaWiki

BetaWiki is a wiki dedicated to documenting the history of various software, with a heavy focus on Microsoft Windows. A solid majority of the content on that site is so entrenched in incredibly technical and arcane knowledge that I would likely never completely understand. But it’s fun to click around on random pages and see what Windows might have looked like at one point. Even if it looks exactly the same as the other builds. Also, sometimes, you encounter cool stuff like this:

A wallpaper used on some windows development builds to discourage leaking confidential data. Needless to say, it was leaked.

Shadowlord Inc.

Like transformation content? Well you might be interested in Shadowlord Inc. a website dedicated to documenting transformation sequences across animated and live action shows and other multimedia.

Founded in 1999, (with a webpage design to match), and monthly updates to the site, there’s quite a bit to explore. And I really gotta hand it off to them for making 90s web design look good. You just can’t go wrong with that Gothic logo.

The Big Cartoon Wiki

If perhaps transformation isn’t your cup of tea, perhaps you might find inflation to be a little more interesting. And we are not talking about the economy either, we’re talking about cartoons.

With over 78 GB worth of images at the time of writing, after initially, beginning as a Tumblr blog, it’s involved into a wiki dedicated to documenting every inflation or weight gain sequence found in cartoons and cartoons alone.

Flipnote

I’ve got to admit, Flipnote is a pretty cool application. Well, it’s not one that I actively grew up using. Or at the very least, one that I actively engaged with for art, I’ve still watched a ton of Flipnotes over the years. And recently, I’ve started enjoying a lot of the major Flipnote creators like raxdflipnote and Zane Little. Perhaps it’s just because of how distracted I am anymore. But they’re still a very good distraction, regardless.

Animation is pretty hard, and doing it on a very small screen seems even harder. Especially doing it in an application that lacks a lot of the big-time animation features that most professional grade apps have. Such as Keyframes, Shape Tweens, among a lot of other things that I probably missed when I observed Adobe anime in a middle school STEM class.

Some of my favorites so far

Let’s Go Gambling!!

I’m Gonna Eat This Glass!!

Stay Single

This was probably just filler so that I could feel a sense of justification migrating my blog. But I will call it content regardless.