Originally in end 2007 I got Paint shop pro from my dad which also included Animation shop which I used to make gif animations with.
I used this for my original YouTube videos which gave the random pictures slightly some special effects.
When I was 11, I discovered Pivot when my friend made an animation of a stick figure shooting 2 other stick figures and I found it absolutely hilarious!
That was somewhere around June 2008.
During the summer vacation I made various of Pivot animations that I would later post to YouTube.
There are also plenty of unreleased animations because Windows Movie Maker couldn't handle the files at the time, the chance that they will ever be shown to the internet might be small or possible since the music was copyrighted but nowadays I can find similar music on Royality free music websites.
I also had this short lived animation series called Sock Puppet, which had a few short episodes plus a 3 part episode that was obviously copied from the Adventure mode story from Super Smash Bros Brawl.
Maybe one day, I will remake that show in Flash and make episodes that are actually original.
It wasn't until February 2009 when I got my first subscriber on YouTube, this person was just a sub4subber and actually got me into sub4subbing which I regret, but also don't because the 300 people that I sub4subbed with actually watched my videos and every time I uploaded a video, it would get around 300 views. (It was 2009 though, back then you had a bigger chance to become popular on YouTube)
From September 2008 until July 2009, I just uploaded random unserious animations that were meant to be comedic.
In July, I got the idea of making a serious animation series which I ended up never making.
It however made me focus on animating an animation more than the content of an animation, this is where my videos went downhill; I kept uploading videos that were almost 3 seconds long and I made 4 of those videos every day since I was in elementary school and I had all the time of my life.
End 2009, I came back from Germany where I celebrate Christmas every year.
When I looked at my channel, my comments box, private messages were filled with hate comments and messages.
I'm not going into details, but the people who were behind this managed get most of the Pivot community to bomb my channel with hate, made a hate group and even hacked into someone's channel making a video telling everyone to unsubscribe me and later the account owner accused me of hacking into their channel.
For me this was very shocking and I even remember that I ran out of my room while I was crying.
At that point I slowly started hiding my channel: I removed my icon, modules, design and everything else.
My videos were still online at the time but could only be found if you looked them up by searching my username.
February 13, 2010 was the last time that I uploaded a public video on my YouTube channel.
Somewhere in March I privated and even deleted videos from my channel, this had nothing to do with the hateful comments that I got but because Pivot videos were getting removed by a user who used a fake company to ban animators from YouTube.
I never actually quit Pivot, or animation. I was still active on animation forums, posted animations every day on deviantART and Photobucket and had a lot of fun making Pivot animations until I stopped in October 2010 and the last time I ever animated was July 8, 2011 which was supposed to be my "cousin's" birthday. (Actually it was obviously my channel but I pretended it was owned by my cousin)
So let's get to the part where I started using Flash.
August 4th, 2009. I made an animation with Pencil, I also submitted this to Newgrounds but it got blammed for obvious reasons.
On October 30, 2009 I posted my first official animation with Flash, after that a lot of other animations followed.
Shout out to the YouTuber hobodude68 who taught me the basics of flash aka F6.
I haven't used Flash that much anymore and I have been learning Cinema 4D, After Effects, and Blender.
I have had some motion design jobs since then. Still interested in animation, but not as occupied with it as I used to.
I used this for my original YouTube videos which gave the random pictures slightly some special effects.
When I was 11, I discovered Pivot when my friend made an animation of a stick figure shooting 2 other stick figures and I found it absolutely hilarious!
That was somewhere around June 2008.
During the summer vacation I made various of Pivot animations that I would later post to YouTube.
There are also plenty of unreleased animations because Windows Movie Maker couldn't handle the files at the time, the chance that they will ever be shown to the internet might be small or possible since the music was copyrighted but nowadays I can find similar music on Royality free music websites.
I also had this short lived animation series called Sock Puppet, which had a few short episodes plus a 3 part episode that was obviously copied from the Adventure mode story from Super Smash Bros Brawl.
Maybe one day, I will remake that show in Flash and make episodes that are actually original.
It wasn't until February 2009 when I got my first subscriber on YouTube, this person was just a sub4subber and actually got me into sub4subbing which I regret, but also don't because the 300 people that I sub4subbed with actually watched my videos and every time I uploaded a video, it would get around 300 views. (It was 2009 though, back then you had a bigger chance to become popular on YouTube)
From September 2008 until July 2009, I just uploaded random unserious animations that were meant to be comedic.
In July, I got the idea of making a serious animation series which I ended up never making.
It however made me focus on animating an animation more than the content of an animation, this is where my videos went downhill; I kept uploading videos that were almost 3 seconds long and I made 4 of those videos every day since I was in elementary school and I had all the time of my life.
End 2009, I came back from Germany where I celebrate Christmas every year.
When I looked at my channel, my comments box, private messages were filled with hate comments and messages.
I'm not going into details, but the people who were behind this managed get most of the Pivot community to bomb my channel with hate, made a hate group and even hacked into someone's channel making a video telling everyone to unsubscribe me and later the account owner accused me of hacking into their channel.
For me this was very shocking and I even remember that I ran out of my room while I was crying.
At that point I slowly started hiding my channel: I removed my icon, modules, design and everything else.
My videos were still online at the time but could only be found if you looked them up by searching my username.
February 13, 2010 was the last time that I uploaded a public video on my YouTube channel.
Somewhere in March I privated and even deleted videos from my channel, this had nothing to do with the hateful comments that I got but because Pivot videos were getting removed by a user who used a fake company to ban animators from YouTube.
I never actually quit Pivot, or animation. I was still active on animation forums, posted animations every day on deviantART and Photobucket and had a lot of fun making Pivot animations until I stopped in October 2010 and the last time I ever animated was July 8, 2011 which was supposed to be my "cousin's" birthday. (Actually it was obviously my channel but I pretended it was owned by my cousin)
So let's get to the part where I started using Flash.
August 4th, 2009. I made an animation with Pencil, I also submitted this to Newgrounds but it got blammed for obvious reasons.
On October 30, 2009 I posted my first official animation with Flash, after that a lot of other animations followed.
Shout out to the YouTuber hobodude68 who taught me the basics of flash aka F6.
I haven't used Flash that much anymore and I have been learning Cinema 4D, After Effects, and Blender.
I have had some motion design jobs since then. Still interested in animation, but not as occupied with it as I used to.