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"But it never gets easy; it's always the same
A one minute cartoon needs a thousand new frames note 
And I've stories to tell that stay locked in my brain
And I don't know how I'll get them OUT... yet I maintain..."
— Harry Partridge, "With Animation You Can!"

Web Animation is simply animation on the World Wide Web. Actual series or shorts are very common compared to Webcomics, but the medium itself is pervasive in the form of being independently or commercial advertising.

Aside from machinima and fanime, Web cartoons are generally in Flash, as is some advertising. Animated GIFs are even easier to make and don't require special plug-ins, so they're used by much web advertising and by many forum avatars. However, some such advertising uses dynamic HTML, which just changes the position of an image on a webpage. Animated SVG (scalable vector graphics) is a new technology still in development.

The content of Web Animation often varies greatly from animation seen on television. Media classifications usually aren't a problem and the length of the work can be anything. In addition, Web Animation is widespread and also available worldwide. Before Flash, people had used the Commodore Amiga for their animations, like Eric W. Schwartz for example.

Two good places to start looking for web animations are Newgrounds and Albino Blacksheep, in the mid-to-late 1990s which are also two of the oldest sites to host Flash animations on the web (Newgrounds claims even to be the first site with an automated portal submission system but not really). Note that these sites (Newgrounds in particular) have animations that are extremely NSFW.

A fairly new and popular form of (expansive) Web Animation is commercial, professionally-made web shows. It's currently one of the newest medium of New Media; the earliest commercial web show didn't debut until 2001. As of this time, only animation studios from Japan have been investing in this business model, finding various distribution channels in many streaming and video networks.

Web Animation comes in a wide range of different styles, and content can be original or based on pre-existing franchises (making them a type of fan work). Web Animation has become one of the most populous types of media on the web alongside Webcomics, web videos and web originals. People have improved on Web Animation over the years ever since its debut.

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    Notable Web Animation creators 

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