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In a certain sense, I created the very first Flash animation. I was working at Macromedia and happened to be in the office earlier than usual that morning. Our
by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y ago
In a certain sense, I created the very first Flash animation.
I was working at Macromedia and happened to be in the office earlier than usual that morning. Our SVP came to my boss and said basically “We bought Futurewave, we’re announcing it today, and we’re renaming FutureSplash to Shockwave Flash. I need somebody to throw a quick animation together for the press gathering, and none of the creative services people are in the building yet.”
So I downloaded the tool and made this weird little animation with the Shockwave logo falling onto the FutureSplash name and crushing the “utureSp” letters.
After that, we shared a floor with the Flash team. Good people. Jonathan Gay is very smart.
- cghendrix 6y agoI love reading stuff like this on HN. Nice!
- abdusco 6y agoUnrelated, but is there a meaning to your username? Or is it just a random string?
- saagarjha 6y agoWonder if it says anything about the account's password.
- yasinaydin 6y agoOr it could be the seed.
- roberto 6y agoTheir password is "john"
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y agoNo, it’s just random.
- harshitaneja 6y agoCaptain Holt?
- Mizza 6y agoThis is wonderful, thanks for sharing. Any chance you've got a copy of that on an old hard drive somewhere? I bet the IA folks would love to highlight that.
- SirLotsaLocks 6y agoYeah I would love to see the first flash animation as well
- aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA 6y agoNo, unfortunately. In retrospect I wish I’d kept all of the multimedia projects I made at that job.
- thisAintReal 6y agoIn a way that's beautiful