Jeff -

Great post.  I think that the goal of "making a cartoon like Homestar
Runner" is a great goal for Squeak's media capabilities; I hope you
succeed!

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:11:53 -0500, Jeffrey T. Read <bitwize at snet.net> wrote:
> Fellow Squeakers,
> 
> I have read the messages of others concerning Squeak's multimedia
> "promise" vs. what it is actually being used for. I think they raise
> some good points and Squeak isn't nearly what it could be. I'm one of
> those people who saw the multimedia aspects of Squeak and came to it
> for that purpose, when I opened it up I thought "Wow! There's so much
> good stuff in here! When will someone put it all together into
> something REALLY cool?" So Squeak to me is at the same time much more
> and much less than other multimedia programs.
> 
> Consider that animation is a very hot thing on the Web, yet Squeak has
> virtually no presence in this arena. It is nearly dominated instead by
> an awful little program called Macromedia Flash. In addition to
> hacking, I also draw comics and sometimes make the occasional
> animation. But it hasn't been since Autodesk Animator that I have found
> an animation program I actually liked. Squeak, as a complete
> programming environment with a fast graphical subsystem, has the
> potential to be far more powerful and capable than Flash ever was yet
> no one is doing anything with it in this regard.
> 
> Mind you, my purpose is not to turn Squeak into Flash, but rather to
> make things like "Homestar Runner" (a very popular and funny Web
> cartoon) possible in Squeak, in a manner that they really haven't been.