This post is just a test for embedding YouTube videos in the soon-to-be-launched Big Jump Productions Blog.

It does give you a glimpse at what we’re doing with Flash. It’s a hybrid style of animation that combines carefully executed use of Flash’s common shape and motion tweens with hand-drawn (on Wacom Cintiq tablets), frame-by-frame animation.  The result is animation that is as close to traditional as you can get and still deliver your shows affordably and on-time.

Having setup the ability to blog from the iPhone, I thought it would be fun to try it out while taking a break from animating at the studio. Although it can be frustrating trying to text with thumbs as big as mine, it’s amazing that I now posses the ability to post from anywhere. If I only splurged and got the 3Gs, maybe I could be editing my demo reel too

It’s been fun and quite the experience being a Full-time Dad these past six months.  I count myself as being very fortunate that I had the opportunity to do so.  But now the work bug is biting again and it’s time to return to the “real” world.

I’ve been adding new content to the Gallery and Animation pages.  As always, the hard part is deciding what to post when you love doing everything from 2D and 3D design to animation to visual effects.

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Feeling a bit nostaglic, I just had to post this demo from a few years back when I first started animating with Flash.

A small sampling of animation I have done in Flash over the past few years. Click on “Animation” in the Menu Bar above or in the side-bar to the right of this page.