Flash Artist: Billy Blob

This site billyblob.com is a website that provides the work of a flash artist by the name of Billy.
He has very unique creativity and uses a lot of colorful, wacky characters in his work. On his site he displays his paintings along with short cartoons he produced and some random buzzes about his life.

The reason I chose Billy's site is because I like his style and concepts. My two favorite cartoons are Karma Ghost and Bumble Beeing the butterfly effect part 1. Karma Ghost is brilliant because the entire video is a revolving circle of karma. It kind of reminds me of the animated Radiohead music video. The entire time these bugs? or bacteria follow this man who is constantly confronted by karma. Billy does a good job at making the video simple, but interesting. There's no real detail and everything is very simplistic, but it seems to make the video more effective. I love the audio he chooses for this video, I think it fits perfectly.

In the Bumble Beeing the butterfly effect part 1, he uses more upbeat music with vocals. The characters speak, so it adds more to the scene. I love the colors he combines in this video, it gives the video more of wacky feel. This video is short, but simple and funny. In the end it is a little similar concept to Karma Ghost.

Billy's overall use of flash in his site is interesting and creative. When you first enter the site a black blob appears and inside are grey eggs that turn white which are the buttons you use to navigate through the site. His characters throughout his site really give it his personal touch. Overall I think this is a wonderful site and if you want to check it out go to www.billyblob.com