This moment has never been topped and never will. Modern Online animation is just a pale imitation
>>151003066That episode completely blew my mind when it came out.
>>151003066Sure, wait until YouTube allows any Tom, Dick, or Jimmy to fuck with the website's code and allow this to happen.
>>151003066>>151003089I was fascinated when I learned that the H*R cartoons where essentially animated video games. I don't remember why, had something to do with flash back then and how they ran their website, but it explains it how they did all wacky tricks in the cartoons. Did you know that homestar's eyes were a separate animation from the rest of him? If you paused any of the toons, he'd still keep blinking.
>>151003196That's an artifact of how symbols work in flash.Symbols that are registered as "graphics" will pause when you pause the video, but if it's registered as a symbol it will continue to play(and loop).Back in the day if you didn't want people to pause and frame by frame your shit, you'd do the whole animation and then throw it in a symbol so that it would always play.
>>151003196The first time I saw a Flash ad on some website, I noticed it was different from the usual .gif animations. Right-clicking it brought a weird new menu and you could zoom into the animation.Anyway, Flash had ActionScript and clickable buttons. These two features allowed you to add interactivity, or even create actual videogames with Flash.As for the reason why Homestar's eyes would keep blinking if you paused the animation, Flash had three symbol types: Graphic, Button and Movie Clip. Homestar's eyes were Movie Clip. That kind of symbol would keep looping its own animation even if the main animation timeline was paused.
>>151003196The Chaps Bros truly played around with the features that Flash uniquely provided, as a software suite it was also built with webpage development in mind. Most of their cartoons featured easter eggs in hidden clickable spots, though you could often identify them by holding the tab key and letting tab focus highlight clickable elements that way.A lot of them were featured in the end-of-toon paper print you saw from the top of the screen on SBEmails.>>151003568You mean registered as a Movie Clip.Graphics are synchronous to the main timeline and cannot be manipulated with ActionScript, whilst MovieClips are asynchronous and can be manipulated with ActionScript.Depending on how the Flash movie is built, pausing playback can completely break the animation if it relies on ActionScript for specific things such as camera controls.Although you could throw in some easy ActionScript to disable that right click context menu and its playback controls, some modified players could still override that. I remember there being a plugin for Clickteam Multimedia Fusion of all things that let you load SWF files in the Windows native Flash plugin, and I set up a thing that let me load a Flash file and have fine control over playback like advance and rewinding frames, jumping to specific frames, etc.A majority of Flash files were exported without protection anyway, so most SWF files you could actually import into a matching or newer version of Macromedia / Adobe Flash and grab all of the assets, explore the timeline, etc. It wasn't a total import, I recall it wouldn't include ActionScript, but Flash as a format is pretty easy to data mine.
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>>151003066My mouth was a broken jpeg!
>>151003066How is the creator doing these days
>>151003089>>151003196>that one question on The Impossible Quiz where you could only solve the maze by right-clicking to pause
>>151003089MAKINGOUTWITHMARZIPAN
>>151005585>creator
>>151005585The Brothers Chap are doing just fine. They've had kids, had various jobs in animation, and continue to update H*R every now and again, especially on Halloween and Decemberween.
>>151005585almost all their posts for the past couple years have just been shilling a new item on the merch store
>>151003097there's a war on general-purpose computing going on, replacing your websites with curated apps and locking down your devices. they are removing your freedom in order to make nore money and solidify control, whether they have to say "security vulnerability" or just to whatever they want since they're empowered by IP law and increasing corporate power by a handful of monopolies. Flash has been dead for how long now, and the last Homestar Runner update is about how there are no more websites because everything is a reduced to handful of social media false-choices. and you think YouTube will give you that capability? lol
