Animation Portals
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An animation portal is a system where a user is able to submit his or her own animation in a .swf format to a website and have it immediately be displayed to other visitors. Other visitors will have the privilege to rate it (typically on a scale of 1 through 10), and give a suitable comment followed by custom ratings such as originality, sound, storyline, graphics, etc.
Animation portals can act as a virtual "hang out" for avid animators, using tools such as Adobe Flash. Since their introduction, animation portals have gained popularity on websites such as Newgrounds, FluidAnims, Smosh, E2-Productions, and Stick Figure Death Theatre. Some sites, such as www.flashindustries.com[1], and www.flashbottle.com[2] are said to soon have animation portals.
As animations have become more sophisticated and animators more technologically sophisticated, even amateur animator can achieve high quality results and lengthy animations lasting an hour or more given enough time and effort. Even so, newcomers to the online community can find it difficult for their own site to gain popularity by means of a portal, leading to a decline in the amateur teenage animation community. Surprisingly, to date, no animation portal script has ever been made, acting as a barrier to newcomers to the area. There has been, however, speculation that E2-Productions[3] will be releasing a free animation portal script to the public soon.
Animations nowadays have evolved from being frail drawings of stick men to anime-like fullbody animations. At the peak of stick men animation (mostly known as stick anims using tools such as Pivot), stick sites began popping simultaneously around the internet, showcasing animations such as the hit series Joe Zombie, by Rob Den Bleyker. However, these "stick sites" have been on the decline in favor of higher quality animations.
Most animation portals are run by a MySQL database, though it is said to be possible to create one using just PHP "flat files". There are no known written out scripts for this yet, to date.
