Saving The Earth, Or Whatever By Andrey Shur & Robert Goldberg

How did you hear about Citizens for Global Solutions Flash Contest?
I heard about this contest via FastWeb.com

Was this your first Flash piece? How did you first learn Flash?
This movie is my first flash piece of any real length. I have made numerous short flash animations before for school presentations and just for fun, but this is my longest flash animation made to date. I dabbled in flash since Flash 4 came out, but I only seriously studied it in my 9th grade digital imaging class, where I learned how to code using actionscript. I became really fond of flash during that time because I realized that Flash gave me great flexibility in drawing, programming, and also in graphics. Anything that I can imagine, I can have confidence that flash has the tools to draw it, animate it, code it, whatever.

How did you choose your topic –OR- Why is your topic important to you?
Primarily due to my wonderful Environmental Science teacher Robert Keislar, I was very aware of global environmental issues before I heard of this contest, and especially of peoples' ignorance of them. Every time we have a substitute teacher in that class, it's always some guy that "doesn't believe in" Global Warming, and the whole class has to teach HIM, when it should be the other way around. I know so many people that just turn a blind eye to environmental problems and decide, "Hey, it's someone else's problem!" If only acid rain DID burn people's skin... Well, for some people even THAT wouldn't be enough to stir them from their complacency.

Before the contest, did you consider yourself fairly knowledgeable about global issues? Has this contest opened your eyes in any way?
Humanity has the capability and the technology to solve many of the world's environmental problems if only we could stop being so self-centered and remember that we only have one earth, and if we treat it as being disposable, that's the way it will treat us.

Did you have any weird, funny, horrible, or in some other way memorable moments during the making of your Flash piece for this contest?
Any last words/Anything else you’d like for us and the flash viewers to know?