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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.

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Sketch Ideas for Gravity Pending (Animation) | My 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 so, prior to starting my YouTube channel, I did not actively pursue it.

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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 during this same time. There are differences in format and purpose.

I saw Flash shockwave films (SWFs) as workarounds for experimental animation, to which Audacity software supplied soundtracks. 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, through my output, are further enhanced by being of short duration.

SWF-to-MP4 Conversion: In the early 2000s, I was forced to convert my early Flash content to html video since the Internet was moving away from third-party plug-ins for web design, which meant that future browsers would no longer support the SWF format. Around 2010, other animations were created using this SWF-to-MP4 process. These films were uploaded to Vimeo, where they have languished from neglect ever since. I intend to re-release these few films through my YouTube channel with minor alterations. Gravity Pending is in the same art house spirit of my Vimeo films.

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