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By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com Guide to Animation since 2005

2008 Roundup: What's the most obnoxious use of Flash in 2008?

Sunday December 21, 2008
The past year has seen Flash put to use in innovative ways to create interesting animations with quality that meets or exceeds studio animation.

Unfortunately...it's also seen Flash put to use to animate some horrific things that spread across TV and the internet like a plague. I'd have to say that even though I'm annoyed as heck by things like the talking SitePal ads (which can scare the living behoobers out of me in the middle of the night when my computer starts talking at me) or by the growing preponderance of poorly-animated, 15-minute Flash cut-out "series" scattering across Cartoon Network like blight on rye, my biggest pet peeve is still the mortgage/insurance/whatever ads featuring various random 3D models dancing in eerie and joint-bending ways, all of which have absolutely nothing to do with whatever they're trying to sell in the fifty states invariably depicted in each ad. They give me the heebie-jeebies; I can't look away, and even a liberal scrubbing of brain-bleach can't remove the hypnotic dancing from my brain.

I can't believe they're still around, yet even with so many new offenders popping up they're still a main contender on the stage of obnoxious uses for Flash. What do you think is the most obnoxious Flash creation of 2008?

Comments

December 23, 2008 at 6:22 am
(1) Siri says:

Have to go with those makeshift transitions you’re seeing in documentaries more and more nowadays, not being quality but the fact that they exist. What better way to insult your audiences’ intelligence by throwing something someone threw together in flash one afternoon?

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