Animutation

Animutation is a form of art using Macromedia Flash to create pop culture influenced videos of foreign-language, independent, or (more rarely) mainstream music. The style was invented and popularized by Neil Cicierega (a.k.a. Trapezoid) from Kingston, Massachusetts at the age of 13. The genre is currently expanding to include many other Flash artists. Independent musicians are turning to animutation artists and Flash-based music videos to promote their work for the Internet community. Currently a cult following near that of the also-popular YTMNDs, the genre has the potential to become mainstream within the next few years.

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Animutations are typically characterized by bright flashing backgrounds (so photosensitive epileptics should not view them), cut-and-pasted images (which are often resized or cropped sloppily resulting in a pixelated or rough look), haphazard scribbling on the images or other bad drawing, stick figures, and many other elements that give it a highly raw artistic vision. An animutation may re-use the same image many times, resulting in repetition and choppiness.

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Most (or all) Animutation music videos have lyrics, so to represent the lyrics being spoken as dialogue from the random pics, users 'lasso' the mouth section and lower it a little or a lot. Images can also be stretched to represent dialogue also. There are many ways to do this technique.

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