Flash Animation and Development

Digital Lamb can create advanced Flash animations to showcase your message. Our animators can take a simple brief and develop your animation through story board, character design, illustration to final movie publishing.

The Flash animation can be interactive or play through on a linear timeline. It really depends on what format is best suited to getting your message across. Check out our examples and call us to discuss your concept.

Goodbye Sam Flash movie with characters based on real life people presented as squirrels.	CFM Vikings Flash animation used to show the spread of CFM technology across Europe.	Christy Chatterbottom Flash movie depicting a stereotypical teenage girl’s view of the world.
Licox Brian Animation Flash animation showing the benefits of Licox brain monitoring during surgery.	RTBSO - Big Science Series Online interactive Flash program to help students with science.	Runaway GrapeFlash animation for Haselgrove Vignerons
Sort it Out! This Flash application is designed for teachers to use in the classroom with Interactive Whiteboards.	The Matrix Group The Matrix Group deal in automation services so the concept was to give Santa an automated system to deliver all the presents.	Stamford Hotel The Stamford Hotel Group came to Digital Lamb with a storyboard concept for their animated Christmas card.

What is Flash?

Flash is a program from Adobe that animators and developers can use to make presentations, animations, programs and games. The way Flash displays the graphics means that the file size is much smaller than a comparative animation delivered as an animated GIF or as a movie file.

Flash started out primarily as a 2D animation package. As time has progressed with each new release, the code that you can use has become more and more advanced. Now visitors to your site are able to experience high quality interactive presentations and Flash games by simply downloading the free Flash plug in. Most modern browsers have the Flash plug in but you may need to update your version if you want to see the latest and greatest interactive Flash content.

Macromedia took Flash to the next level and established it as the industry standard for web animation and interactive games. When Adobe bought Macromedia, they integrated it into the Adobe suite to provide designers and developers a more unified range of products.

Over the years, Flash has been given a bad reputation because many companies started adding lengthy animated introductions to their web pages. Most users do not want to be made to sit through the Flash animation every time they visit the site. Most modern design companies will give you the option of skipping the intro or even better, they will present the same intro content as an optional movie for you to view if you choose to.

As the design world has matured in its view and usage of Flash, interactive Flash websites have gained in popularity again. Most modern cinema movies have promotional websites which are entirely built in Flash or have a significant interactive Flash component.

When used correctly Flash can be a powerful marketing tool for your business both on the internet and also out in the field.