If you think you can do better than the latest submissions to the Animation Showcase, don't hesitate to submit your work for display. It'll get you publicity, at least, and if you include a link we'll be happy to link back to you. Just remember to follow the guidelines to the letter, because Adri gets very, very cranky when he has to convert your QuickTime files into the appropriate format.

This submission to the Animation Showcase uses Flash, and Terry Sinclair uses it to experiment with Flash. For a first-timer in Flash, the grasp of movie clips, segmented characters, and cyclical animation is pretty good. At the very least it's a good example of timing audio with motion, and of using cycling clips for repeated motions.

I wasn't sure what I was expecting when I opened submissions for the Animation Showcase - but what I'm getting is a surprising number of novices who aren't afraid to show off their first efforts. Such is the case with "Blink Kitty Love" (I have no idea what that means) by Michelle D. Norton, which shows that you don't need an expensive animation program to try to get your story across. She created this in Flip Boom, which has a very limited toolset and color palette - and with that in mind, she didn't do half bad...though I would advise muting the audio.

Normally I'm pretty excited when I get to review new software; in this case I think I might have shot myself in the foot, as while I enjoyed WidgetCast and it's a darling piece of software with extremely useful features, I nonetheless found it to be a little bit of a letdown (probably because I built it up too much in my head). It's basically Sprout Builder with a few extra capabilities and a much larger price tag - but for what it's worth, it does its job well as a product that can neatly deliver Web 2.0-ready microapplications / widgets, capable of interacting with a range of popular social media platforms to enhance the interactive online experience.