The evolution of animation: bedrock revisited

Flash is the future of television animation. It cuts costs, saves time, and empowers the artist. There is a gap in the education and understanding of how to effectively utilize this program for broadcast animation purposes. This lecture will serve to educate this gap from both an artistic and production point of view. Creating broadcast animation has long been limited to having lots of money and time. The average half hour cartoon runs between 300,000 to 1.5 million dollars to produce. The traditional animation process takes over twelve weeks to produce one episode with most of the grunt work being done overseas. Flash is an artistically empowering program that will change the face of animation within the next year. Flash is slowly creeping into broadcast. Some traditionalists have hesitated to accept Flash animation as viable method of production is because the taint from the dot com era. The reason Flash has not been accepted as a viable mainstream production method is because for the most part, the animation that has been produced on the web lacked the quality of television and film. Currently, there are very few animators who have walked on both sides of the fence. But any of them will tell you Flash Animation will become a necessity in the television industry.