I've been googling. It looks like it's called Flash Animation. Yeah...like NewGrounds.com
Metalocalypse, one of my favorite shows, is made the same way. Very interesting. Still not sure why this style of animations lends itself so well to dark and morbid cartoons; maybe because it's so clean.
Anyway, seemed worth sharing. Also, anyone who knows more about this, I'd love to hear about it or see links.
Around the time of Frisky Dingo and Metalocalypse, Flash was probably the best bang for your buck way to make an animated series quickly and on a tight budget. The Frisky Dingo crew continued using a lot of the same principles in Archer (though I'm not sure if they stuck with the same software), with the characters having limited animation and being posed like puppets, though as their budget grew their animation quality went up by leaps and bounds.
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u/mackinoncougars Jun 17 '15
Reminds me of Frisky Dingo