1. The Tired city
www.iwantmyflash.com
“The tired city” is a great example of an animation aimed at a more mature audience, it is very stylised and employs many well devised shots and angles to give it density and atmosphere. It uses these in itself to add to the story, and also relies on the user to interpretate these, thus making it a more mature piece. Also the darker colours, and fair amount of dialogue imply this. It is also longer which is more suitable for an older audience, as younger viewers would more than likely loose focus. I would classify this as an adult piece (age 18+. This is the style I would like to produce in my flash, a more mature, aesthetically thoughtful and diverse piece.
2. Joe Cartoon
www.joecartoon.com
A good flash example of animation aimed at the young adult audience, around 18-24, being more brightly coloured and simpler, aiming more for the humour element than artistic etc. it’s fairly crude and vulgar and uses bad language for jokes, which is another reason for it being aimed at younger adults, and not suitable as such for a young audience. They also use a lot more interaction and are closer to games, than say short animations. The interaction again is to add to the humour element, and give the bored young adult something to do.3. Dog of man
www.fat-pie.com
A very dark and strange series of flash movies by David Frith, it’s clearly not mainstream material, yet this site has a cult following and that is it’s own fan base, generally young adults, it contains a lot of gore and of course isn’t suitable for teenagers. The context of the movies again is aimed at this “cult” following. People who like dark humour and don’t shy away from It because of what’s happening, but instead find it funny/appealing. The fan base would be generally 18+ to around 25, young adults. Aesthetically it is less simple and has a fairly high quality production which is also something that aims it to a higher aged audience.
4. Skunk fu
http://www.cartoonsaloon.ie/website.htm
A fairly simple and short flash called “Skunk Fu” it’s inoffensive, simply colours, quite bright and friendly, so I’d say this is aimed at a mainstream teenage audience, it has very basic narrative and is more about fun and humour than anything else. It doesn’t use any dialogue and does this I feel to keep it simple so the viewer can just see it and understand the basic linear stories involved. It is produced well and is fairly fast paced to be in tune with the younger audience. According to its synopsis it is infact aimed at 6-11 so around teenage, young teenagers which I gathered from viewing it beforehand. This in itself is a unique audience.
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