Sometimes you could be forgiven for thinking that Flash was all about one thing: ActionScript. But, kids, illustration: remember that? Fills, strokes, vectors: anyone? Sure, we're all AS3 gurus, great, but can you remember how to draw, what colour compliments red, where your sketchbook is? Come on people, we're losing focus here: there's a whole nuther side-of-the-head we could be using. Let's unpack the pencils and draw!

Tuesday 22nd April FlashBrighton is going to launch 'Dictionaryville' a cute-little-illustrative-sister project to accompany LegoJoe's awesome-big-bro-coding 'Robot Wars' adventure.

Dictionaryville: a town where every citizen is a word from the dictionary. For instance, at 101 Lexicon Lane lives 'Magnanimous', husband of 'Analogue', father of 'Indexical' and neighbour to 'Zenith', 'Begonia' & 'Inopportune'. Nattering at the local flower shop we find 'Intrigue', 'Mayhem' & 'Bap'. Patrolling the streets, officers 'Granite' & 'Lampshade'. On the number 37 bus into town 'Jam' chats to 'Pertain' about the weather whilst 'Attentive' scrawls intricate graffiti on the back seat and the driver 'Bulldozer' bruises crudely through rush hour traffic. What are these characters like? What do they look like? Where are they going? What dramas, tribulations and absurdities do they encounter? And what about the town itself?

Those are just examples though, the Dictionaryville project is completely open-ended and the April 22nd meeting is an informal get-together to discuss what it will become, which could be anything from a simple one-off character creation exercise to... who knows?

So get out your pencil sharpener and sign up now for cartoony-looniness!

Remember, if you don't sign up here you don't get no extra raffle tickets!

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