About Cold Hard Flash
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Welcome to Cold Hard Flash, a news and entertainment source focusing on TV production and online shorts being produced with Adobe’s Flash software. Only 3 years ago, there were no more than 5 Flash-animated shows airing on TV. Today, that number is closer to 40. Beyond TV, the web is now full of independent animators making a living solely off their original series work.
Cold Hard Flash was recently listed in Animation Magazine’s 13 People, Platforms and Trends That Our Reshaping Our World.
Your input to Cold, Hard Flash is invaluable, and story ideas are often generated from emails and comments we have received on the site. Please forward any thoughts to admin[ at ]coldhardflash.com.
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Aaron Simpson is an Emmy-nominated Producer of Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island, a Flash-animated series for Kids’WB! In addition, at Warner Bros., he produced over a dozen development shorts and developed Johnny Test for the 2005-2006 season. Prior to Warner Bros., Simpson was Senior Producer of Original Content at Sony, where he helped architect a forward-thinking entertainment portal, Screenblast. Simpson has also held the position of Vice President, Animation at JibJab Media.
In 2005, Aaron was a judge at KOCCA’s Star Project Awards in Seoul, and he has presented at SXSW, Flashforward and FITC Hollywood. In September 2006, he was featured in the Flash Tenth Anniversary online video presentation at adobe.com.
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November 11th, 2005 at 1:59 pm
hey mate. nice site. we are a new production ourselves but we have something in common. one of your animators down in India on coconut fred designed our production
good stuff. good luck.
December 7th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
I’m trying to get in touch with Jennifer Shiman witha proposal to cooperate but am not having much luck via the e-mail she has on her site. Any suggestions?
December 14th, 2005 at 8:21 am
Hey Aaron,
I just have to tell you how much i love this site. (Im addicted) I learn so much from cold hard flash, that helps me get better everyday.
Oh and i bought the book “hollywood 2D digital animation” (which i learned about on here of course) and was surprised to find an interview with you in there….VERY COOL!
Anyway, keep up the great work, and hopefully we’ll see each other sometime soon!
ADAM
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:23 am
hey I really like your site. But the sick bastards at my school blocked your website for some stupid reason…
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:14 am
classic. it’s gotta be those really explicit posts i’ve been making about Atomic Betty. what can i say? she a hellcat!
-Aaron
March 30th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
the site is great!! My name is Carlos Lascano (I apologize for my english..) I´m animator and just made a little experiment using only still photos, was animated not in flash… if you like to see it you can go to:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1Tsjl9ErY
April 4th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Aaron… this is the mecca!
here is my animation site.. maybe you like it.
http://www.joulimousis.com.ar
Regarzz, juan
April 13th, 2006 at 5:13 am
hey aaron
just wanted to say thanks for the continual updates about Yam Roll. Really appreciate it!! It’s great to have support from “THE” flash site
right on!
April 21st, 2006 at 6:06 am
Hey Check out the new Blog by Nuzarc:
http://nuzarc.blogspot.com/
He does his work in FLASH and is planning to unleash webisodes soon!
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:10 pm
hey,
i ‘m a french flash animator on the shuriken school cartoon produced by xilam and i’ve made a small flash movie (except the credit part). I thought you might be interested.
http://www.atravers.blogspot.com/
May 31st, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Hey Aaron.
I’ve checked the site every single day for the last year.
Keep it up!
Please!
-R
July 11th, 2006 at 12:30 am
HEY AARON JUST WANTED TO SAY WHAT UP!!!!!!
July 28th, 2006 at 1:08 am
Aaron - e-mail me bro, your jibjab address came back to me - ! Want to let you know more about August 5th Shoot me a note at: dana.cluverius@cwtv.com
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:00 pm
Hey Aaron, you’re a talented guy! My guess is that this trait came from your mom’s side of the family. Keep at it, my friend!
Your father’s brother. -Ross
September 8th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Hey Aaron, I just wanted to post a link to my blog and give you some background on myself. I’m currently working as a flash build supervisor at Studio B Productions in Vancouver, Canada on the show “Skunk Fu”. My past credits include animating on “The Buzz On Maggie”, “The Amazing Adrenalini Brothers”, and “Yakkity Yak” along with supervising builds for “Coconut Fred” and the first season of “Being Ian”.
Currently, I’m using my blog to post designs for a project I’m doing outside of work along with various other sketches past and present.
Keep up the great work!
http://kevymetalblog.blogspot.com/
October 11th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Dear Aaron,
We are consuming your feed as Actionscript Hero:
http://www.actionscripthero.com/adventures/viewforum.php?f=62
If you want to link to The Definitive List please do!:
http://www.actionscripthero.com/blog/archives/2006/10/link_to_actionscript_hero_adventures_the_definitive_list.html
Looking forward your great adventures,
Warm regards,
aSH
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/members/182.html
December 12th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Just ran into your site while searching for Fat Cat Animation. I noticed that you were judging in Seoul last year. Is Lee, San- Gil still working at KOCCA? I met him a number of times while producing an animation pilot for SOME Entermedia entitled, NetiBee. I haven’t had much contact with the ROK anifolk recently, although I should be there next June to open the 1st. MAAPS International Printmaking Exhibition.
I’m sure that they treated you well in South Korea. When properly paid, Seoul can be a very good time!
Later…
info@maaps.ca
January 15th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Hey Aaron-
It’s Kevin Long again… I wanted to post a link to the short “Super Villain” that I worked on as a creator over at Studio B Productions in Vancouver.
http://www.studiobproductions.com/
Click on “In Development”, then on the Super Villain logo, then at the bottom of the write-up, click on “View Promo” to see the short.
I should give a hella-ton of credit to the creative team on Pucca (Jayson Thiessen, Dallas Parker, Greg Sullivan, and Kirsten Newlands) for helping out with the birth of this cartoon! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions!
March 11th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Hi, i love your guys’ site and works, and am interested in any opening for freelance if available.
I have been animating in flash for almost 5 years now and am pretty well oriented with the software and it’s capabilities.
I do not have an official resumme as of now, but i do have many works that i can refer you to if you are interested.
thanks for any input or response.
you can AIM me at: Maxvador90210
or email me at: maxvador@msn.com
thanks again
March 21st, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Hi,
I am an animator/filmmaker. Thought that you might want be interested in some of my work. I have just put up a few online on myspace. F.x a couple of fully animated music videos:
http://www.myspace.com/johannesnyholm
There is also more work on:
http://johannes.hopto.org
but this site is very slow.
Take a look an see what you think, and feel free to link to it if you like.
Thanks,
Johannes N
March 30th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Hi Aaron,
Thanks so much for posting such a cool detailed post about our music video for Figurines in Denmark! Much appreciated and many thanks again.
Kindest Regards,
Brad Mossman
July 9th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Hi Aaron,
I’m an animator in Ottawa and I’ve been visiting CHF on a daily basis to check out the best and latest Flash stuff. So thanks to everyone involved, you do some great work. I do all my animation in Flash and I’ve recently had the chance to post a couple of examples of my personal work on a blog.
http://www.jamiegallant.blogspot.com
People often mistake this stuff for pencil on paper as I don’t use symbols or a library of stock art. Instead everything’s drawn frame by frame on the wacom. It’s not quite as fast or cheap as the symbol based stuff I do at work but it’s alot of fun. I don’t see alot of this type of Flash represented on the web so it’d be great if you could check it out and let me know what you think.
Thank,
Jamie.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:45 am
What up Aaron? So I am producing a prime time pilot and my artist recommends I come here and look for an animator and BAM!!! There you are!
I told Kyle, I think this web site belongs to that guy you work with from Bridget’s party? LOL
Hope you’re well and the real estate market drops like a hot coal!
Crafty
October 25th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Hi Aaron,
Cold Hard Flash is a great help for Flash Animation Industry. We are a 2D/3D services firm with office in NY and development center in India providing Flash Animation services to US based Interactive Studios. I would like to get in touch with you regarding our services and would like to show you some of our flash animation work in development.
My contact details
abhijeetcattrimitystudios.com
Looking forward to hear from
Abhijeet
October 25th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Hey,
Is there a way to contact CHF by email if I have a question? Thanks
-Brent