Artoonix Forum

[KayNine]

Having just watched every movie in the Featured Gallery, one thought kept striking me .... several people who submitted animations produced really excellent and interesting work, yet unless they are hidden in the other gallery, they seem to have moved on or stopped using Artoonix.

I wonder why - or what they're doing now.

The ones who struck me that way were -

Invadertigerstar (Smile)
Lea (Funshine)
Lera (Home alone)
Dan [and his dad] (Flame and speed)
Peteruk56 (Granny gets a tattoo) - although Peter does have his own movie area elsewhere
Andy.P (Ardent heat)

Work by these people should be truly inspirational to anyone exploring the versatility of Artoonix.
It would be great to see what else they have worked on.

[KayNine]

That last message was posted just over a year ago and the situation remains unchanged.

If anything, it's less good now than it was then, with masses and masses of really short and undeveloped animations being submitted to the gallery by a really tiny number of users.

Surely, with more time and effort it's easily possibly to move on from crude tests and experiments and to actually take some time to start producing animations which develop an idea and make something of it? Instead, it's as if all that is important is to fill each screen with ultra-short uploads. If anyone can explain this very unproductive and uncreative development, please feel free to do so.

Maybe it's because I was a teacher for 27 years, but it irks me to see such a lack of progress. It wouldn't be so noticeable if there was a large body of users posting into the gallery (as there were in the early days of Artoonix), but that certainly is not the case anymore.

So the original question remains ......
............................................................. ...... why has this happened? Where are all those original and innovative Artoonix users now, and what are they doing? Have they switched to other animation software or have they just gone away and given up?

It's very strange.

[Invadertigerstar]

Hi there KayNine.
I realize both of those posts are kind of old but if you were interested a year after the first I figured you may still be interested.
I am the one who did the smiling cat animation. To answer your question about where I went, I actually just uploaded that because I was bored XD I didn't think anyone would like my little animation or would see it. I still use artoonix now but I upload what I make on either youtube or on deviant art with the rest of my artwork (I'm a digital artist, although I wasn't when I did that first cat cartoon)
I was just fooling around with google and I saw your post so I thought I'd answer. I have made several much longer animations that I can show you if you'd like.

[KayNine]

[Maggie]

not everyon posts to the gallery or Youtube. I have my own web place which I only share with friends. But I like the feature gallery here and the links that ones like kaynine and pennaz post. i wish others did better longer anims.

[KayNine]

[IceRain]

KayNine,
After reading your post, I was thinking that maybe you expect perfection from these people who are new to creating animations with Artoonix. Maybe they feel they can't compete with your favorites in the Featured Gallery (who are really good, by the way). Well, I am not perfect and certainly don't hold a candle to your favorites, but I enjoy animation and have, off and on since 98, been creating animations with various software. I plan on keeping my creativness as a form of fun, as compitition takes the fun right out of it for me.
As Artoonix is updated, I think there will be more good animators uploading to the gallery, so chin up, hope is not lost.

[KayNine]