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I've been digging up my old work from my days at university recently (man, there is sooo much!) and I figure I should post some of the stuff that I actually finished. I love seeing other people old work compared to their new stuff, so it seems right I should do the same!

If I remember correctly this was the 5th flash animation I ever did. I was pretty pleased with how it went at the time, although now I it definitely needs to be put on 1's rather than 2's.

This is my oldest surviving animation, but mostly to satisfy my own nostalgia I've written up a small summary of my earlier experiences with animation:

The 1st flash animation I ever did was a stick figure fight I made at the start of highschool when I was first shown flash. It was in the style of the matrix, having just watched a similar stick figure fight on Newgrounds (still thriving back then). Lost the file pretty quickly I think.
The 2nd was an animation I made at the end of high school about a environmental activist group (Sea Shepherd) battling whalers and eventually the police. It comprised of pretty basic stick figures and props, but was good for a bit of a laugh and was at least more interesting than most of the other presentations. Also lost to the data god (unfortunately).
The 3rd was the first my first uni animation, titled 'The Great Mighty Poo'. It was literally a brown circle with a face jumping up and down and splashing it's shit everywhere. Gotta say, I set the bar pretty high with that one. Lost this file as well.
The 4th was a 'take' animation (a character reacting to a surprise). Used the same afro character as ^above^, but he was drawn so badly. I hardly drew anything before I went to uni, so it was a slow process trying to learn that skill while also trying to animate them. It was a struggle then and it's a struggle now Somehow lost this one quite recently while shifting files around between hard drives. Set up a proper archiving system so this doesn't happen again!

Looking even further back I remember creating animations in Microsoft Powerpoint when I was in grade 2-4. Me and some other kids in the school library would get pictures from the web and move them around frame by frame style using the slides; you'd play it back by starting the presentation and holding down the next slide button. It was a lot of fun, especially when the powerpoints started becoming thousand slide behemoths of increasingly bizarre and over the top situations. With no plans or end goal, the powerpoints became these evolving, almost incomprehensible stories with the sole purpose of trying to one-up the competition with how many laughs it would get. We eventually got kicked out of the library after our makeshift animation club got too big for its own good, having started mini riots in the computer area.

I didn't remember those days until quite recently, but maybe that first taste guided me to the point I'm at now?

Description
I've been digging up my old work from my days at university recently (man, there is sooo much!) and I figure I should post some of the stuff that I actually finished. I love seeing other people old work compared to their new stuff, so it seems right I should do the same!

If I remember correctly this was the 5th flash animation I ever did. I was pretty pleased with how it went at the time, although now I it definitely needs to be put on 1's rather than 2's.

This is my oldest surviving animation, but mostly to satisfy my own nostalgia I've written up a small summary of my earlier experiences with animation:

The 1st flash animation I ever did was a stick figure fight I made at the start of highschool when I was first shown flash. It was in the style of the matrix, having just watched a similar stick figure fight on Newgrounds (still thriving back then). Lost the file pretty quickly I think.
The 2nd was an animation I made at the end of high school about a environmental activist group (Sea Shepherd) battling whalers and eventually the police. It comprised of pretty basic stick figures and props, but was good for a bit of a laugh and was at least more interesting than most of the other presentations. Also lost to the data god (unfortunately).
The 3rd was the first my first uni animation, titled 'The Great Mighty Poo'. It was literally a brown circle with a face jumping up and down and splashing it's shit everywhere. Gotta say, I set the bar pretty high with that one. Lost this file as well.
The 4th was a 'take' animation (a character reacting to a surprise). Used the same afro character as ^above^, but he was drawn so badly. I hardly drew anything before I went to uni, so it was a slow process trying to learn that skill while also trying to animate them. It was a struggle then and it's a struggle now Somehow lost this one quite recently while shifting files around between hard drives. Set up a proper archiving system so this doesn't happen again!

Looking even further back I remember creating animations in Microsoft Powerpoint when I was in grade 2-4. Me and some other kids in the school library would get pictures from the web and move them around frame by frame style using the slides; you'd play it back by starting the presentation and holding down the next slide button. It was a lot of fun, especially when the powerpoints started becoming thousand slide behemoths of increasingly bizarre and over the top situations. With no plans or end goal, the powerpoints became these evolving, almost incomprehensible stories with the sole purpose of trying to one-up the competition with how many laughs it would get. We eventually got kicked out of the library after our makeshift animation club got too big for its own good, having started mini riots in the computer area.

I didn't remember those days until quite recently, but maybe that first taste guided me to the point I'm at now?