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Yes, but those same artists now use open source 3D animation, and probably contribute to various indie game projects. Flash didn’t go away entirely because of security, there was no innovation, and the most anyone could aspire to was making adventure games or flash stick figure games/movies back then.

I personally miss the existence of thousands of Planetarion clones on the internet.

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Those artists are still using AOT compiled Air runtime, or have migrated to either Animate CC or Unity, although a minority might have given a shot to OpenFL/PlayCanvas.

There is no miraculous contribution to open source 3D animation going on.

There’s no census of independent art, and what is available to me is on the recommendation sidebar of various video sites, so I disagree, but acknowledge we live in different echo chambers.

>the most anyone could aspire to was making adventure games or flash stick figure games/movies back then.

As a counterexample, I present: Homestar Runner. Also, Homestuck.

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