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- | [[Image:Flashforward 2006 Seattle logo.PNG|thumb|400px|The logo of | + | [[Image:Flashforward 2006 Seattle logo.PNG|thumb|400px|The logo of Flashforward 2006.]] |
- | + | [[Matt Chapman|Matt]] and [[Mike Chapman]], creators of [[HomestarRunner.com]], will be presenting "[[Flashforward 2006 Seattle - 28 Feb 2006|How and Why Homestar Runner Cartoons Get Made]]" at '''Flashforward2006 Seattle'''. Learn more in this audio interview with Lynda Weinman: what it's like working together every day, why they still proudly use Flash 5, how they incorporate audio and video, how they are able to offer free content with no ads, the importance of interactivity, and what other projects they've worked on. | |
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+ | Twenty-two minutes and forty-eight seconds of pure Friday fun! | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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'''MIKE:''' Yeah, Cool Edit Pro. Um, so we just use Mobile Pre-Amp, um, USB Pre-Amp, to, uh, plug the mikes in, and just, uh, record it all in Audition and clean it up in there. | '''MIKE:''' Yeah, Cool Edit Pro. Um, so we just use Mobile Pre-Amp, um, USB Pre-Amp, to, uh, plug the mikes in, and just, uh, record it all in Audition and clean it up in there. | ||
- | '''MATT:''' We have a little sound room here at the office, it used to just be me sitting in front | + | '''MATT:''' We have a little sound room here at the office, it used to just be me sitting in front—We always had a decent microphone just cause, with, you know, from recording our own home music stuff, we had at least a decent microphone, and, like, a four-track and stuff, and so, but it was still just me sitting at the computer, and you could hear Mike doing the dishes in the background, and like, lots of room noise and stuff like that, but now... ''{Lynda laughs}'' ...little sound room looks fairly soundproof, or at least soundproof enough. |
'''LYNDA:''' Yeah, I think the audio sounds great on your site. | '''LYNDA:''' Yeah, I think the audio sounds great on your site. | ||
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'''LYNDA:''' I also think it's really neat that you don't have any advertising, I'm sure your site is popular enough to where you could make a lot of money with advertising, what has prompted– | '''LYNDA:''' I also think it's really neat that you don't have any advertising, I'm sure your site is popular enough to where you could make a lot of money with advertising, what has prompted– | ||
- | '''MATT:''' | + | '''MATT:''' We're promised that all the time. |
'''LYNDA:''' Oh, I'm certain of it. | '''LYNDA:''' Oh, I'm certain of it. | ||
- | '''MATT:''' I still don't know... I still don't believe that banner ads can work. | + | '''MATT:''' I'm still don't know... I still don't believe that banner ads can work. |
'''LYNDA:''' Oh. Well, I don't have them on our sites either. | '''LYNDA:''' Oh. Well, I don't have them on our sites either. | ||
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'''LYNDA:''' Absolutely. Well, one of the things we like to do at Flashforward is inspire everybody, and part of... probably the most inspirational thing of all is the film festival – I've had many people tell me after being at the film festival that they left the conference and created something that they didn't think they would have created had they not seen it. So I'm looking forward to your session inspiring a lot of people. I realise that you're not gonna teach anybody how to do animation, or ActionScript, but I don't really think that's the role of having people like yourselves... what you're doing is so successful and effective and compelling and... you have so many fans, I live in a town of 8,000 people, and I see people walking around with your tshirts on, which to me is a sign of something and... obviously you could never have expected to have done this, since the Internet was so new in 2000, and not very many people have achieved what you guys have achieved. | '''LYNDA:''' Absolutely. Well, one of the things we like to do at Flashforward is inspire everybody, and part of... probably the most inspirational thing of all is the film festival – I've had many people tell me after being at the film festival that they left the conference and created something that they didn't think they would have created had they not seen it. So I'm looking forward to your session inspiring a lot of people. I realise that you're not gonna teach anybody how to do animation, or ActionScript, but I don't really think that's the role of having people like yourselves... what you're doing is so successful and effective and compelling and... you have so many fans, I live in a town of 8,000 people, and I see people walking around with your tshirts on, which to me is a sign of something and... obviously you could never have expected to have done this, since the Internet was so new in 2000, and not very many people have achieved what you guys have achieved. | ||
- | '''MATT:''' Yeah, it was pretty cool to see... I mean, not in a negative way, but... that we'd outlasted some of the other sites. There's usually... a lot of them are still up, flash cartoon sites that were popular back when we first started... they're still up, but they're not putting up new... they haven't been putting up new | + | '''MATT:''' Yeah, it was pretty cool to see... I mean, not in a negative way, but... that we'd outlasted some of the other sites. There's usually... a lot of them are still up, flash cartoon sites that were popular back when we first started... they're still up, but they're not putting up new... they haven't been putting up new in forever, or they went to subscription service and things like that. The fact that it's 6 years later, and we're still just doing the same thing, just giving it to people for free if they want to see it, maybe they'll buy a shirt, maybe they won't. It's a source of pride, for me, anyway. |
'''LYNDA:''' As it should be. | '''LYNDA:''' As it should be. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
- | *[ | + | *[http://blog.flashforwardconference.com/2006/02/10/podcast-chapman-brothers-interview/ Download the interview from Flashforward] |
[[Category:Interviews and Public Appearances]] | [[Category:Interviews and Public Appearances]] |