i enjoyed it and i might start crying cause of the music

Thank you very much! I'm a bit choked up myself right now, but more because I had to immerse myself into the whole Laika ordeal again.

I love this, its so lovely

Thank you, I'm very glad you liked it. :)

Awww. :< It may have been simple but I think that makes it more powerful.

'So if you're on a dial-up you might want to skip this one. Seriously, why are you still on a dial-up anyway?' THAT made me lawl though.

Hehe, there's no reason you can't stick a joke into something serious. ;)

Well next time, put it at the end, so we don't feel to saddened. ;D

URK. too*

Haha, yeah... the ancient greeks had it right. At their theatres they always had two dramas, then a comedy, so people left happy.

sorry? dude this is really powerful and well done :D I want to see more of this style of work from you

and the colors are just...amazing

Thanks man! The "sorry" is more in case I get someone depressed, hehe.

It was moving :3

Thanks again... a thing like this can easily turn into a comedy if one fails, hehe.

Epic job I will say~
The frames of the animation are very nicely drawn, and the stylization of the group picture into an old photo was a great idea. Very fitting music also.
If works like this is what you meant to start doing now in your current jounral, then I greatly approve this way.

Thank you very much, sir. :salute:

Magnificent.

Glad you liked it :salute:

Really beautiful, congratz.

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.

This was very moving, well done and a treat to watch right before I start my day.

Bravo, you shouldnt dis-credit yourself since you do such lovely work hun. ^^

Thank you ^_^

бедные соба́чки =(

A great tribute! I have read about them a few times but rarely have I seen anything in memoriam. Thanks for that

Wow.. no fancy animation... yet is the best thing I ever seen here on FA. I'm really impressed with this, it represent so much, so much emotions u know...

The "photograph" u painted is so beautiful too

Good job... now u r my top artist

If I know more english I would writte more lol x3, I can't redact too well

I hope u keep doing things like this


Kisses sexy

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. I think music can really expand a few simple images a lot... It's a very powerful tool, because it can direct the viewers emotions and add motion to a still image. For a space geek like me the subject is already loaded with emotions, of course. Pioneers in space, tragedies and triumphs.

yeah music can do that x3 tho u need a high music artz level to make it works, congratulations again then :B

Beautiful...
Very nice

rarely such things are shown on fa, its good to see this, it really is.

Thank you. :) ... Laika, the other dogs and the NASA monkeys really ought to be drawn more often here on FA. They were among the first animals into space.

yeah, it's so sad tho..

Yeah, especially since they were forced by the Soviet leaders to rush the project (only four weeks to design and build the craft!). They just didn't have time to make a re-entry plan. Every mission before and after had a re-entry plan. I know the scientists involved were heartbroken whenever a mission failed, so they must've felt awful knowingly sending her to her death.

wow, that i didn't know. I hope that wont happen again

Well, this was way back when they weren't even sure what the effects of a living being would be in space. It was also during the cold war when the US and Soviet were racing to be the first to put a man in space, in orbit and eventually on the moon. In '75 the US and Soviet launched a joint space operation, docking an US Apollo craft with a Soviet Soyuz in space, conducting experiments together and effectively ending the space race. Ultimately, there's so much good that has come from the space race... not just advances in technology (everything from aerodynamics to kitchen appliances), but pushes for better education and even environmental movements. This tribute Flash isn't just about the tragic death of a dog, but also what that dog (and the other animals and early astronauts/cosmonauts and scientists) pioneered.

i find it very good that you remind us of such incidents, and i'd recommend other artists to do that too. Honoring someone is a great way of showing respect, and it's another step from preventing those happenings to fall into a state of oblivion.

Agreed ^_Q <- monocle'd!

Yeah, sorry she's dead at that point. :(

Well the ending is just a slap in the face >,< lol

Beautifully done. : 3 Very touching. Bravo! *standing ovation* XD

haha, thanks!

i had to look this up. pretty sad... but perhaps a necessary sacrifice. Sucks that she had to die, but it was not in vain.

No, I agree... although if they'd been given more time they could've made re-entry calculations and designed a better temperature control system (which in turn would've enabled them to learn more from the mission). As I said in another comment, this is a tribute not to the death of a dog, but to what this dog (and the others), the cosmonauts/astronauts and the scientists managed to achieve. In the end, putting a man on the moon is tiny compared to all the technological, educational and political/environmental advances the space race gave us.

But damn, was it good PR

Haha, yeah.

You ok SH?

What?

R U O K

Well... why wouldn't I be?

This is a very melancholy video. As long as you're okay I'm happy.

Oh, right... no, I'm ok. :P ...There's nothing wrong with making melancholic stuff, it doesn't have to reflect my general state of mind or however I should put it. I think it's a great way to vent, actually.

Very good.

Damned great work, man....kudos

This is a wonderful concept for an animation piece.. BRAVO ! ^^

That's deep... without her sacrifice we would've never reached the stars...

Wow... that's what i call a catching way to remember someone... really good done Sir! *Salutes and pays a silent minute for Laika*

Oh my god this is so sad....my great grandfather saw her in person before she went up....i feel so conencted to this poor girl...

Powerful and heart-wrenching. At least she will forever be remembered

AHH MOTHERLAND!

Dude....I remember reading about this back in school, but to see it in this form...its fucking heartbreaking...

Not many people realize the sacrifices made in the name of advancement. Even if it was 'just a dog'... it was still a life, and she trained to serve her country just as any cosmonaut did. The things learned from her sacrifice were immense, but it was still a sacrifice. The story always chokes me up when I read about it, and this just puts that sort of into imagery and sound.

Very powerful, very touching. Good work.

Beautiful work and it shows how far one will go to be the first to achieve something.

I didn't notice any posts referring Jonathan Coulton's song 'Space Doggity' Here is a YouTube link with good visuals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsV-qozMz9A

Coulton's awesome. I hadn't heard that song before... reminds me of David Bowie's Space Oddity. :D

This was beautiful ,Crying so hard now!

awww x:

I won't lie, this is possibly my new favorite rendition of the Soviet National Anthem. Wonderful work, glad I was back-reading journals and found this.

sorry but I know a bit more of how the soviet union operated before they got to space. This is a tragedy yes... but this pales in comparison to how they operated normally. It's almost enough to make one say that hitler never lost WWII, he just switched to russian.

It isn't a comment on the politics or atrocities of WWII/Cold War era Soviet (or modern day Russia, for that matter). Since it's so obvious that the Laika mission would pale in comparison to those (in fact, the space race is one of the few positive things that came out of the cold war), why would you presume I was making this out to be a great atrocity?

ps. I'm not sure I would consider Laika a tragedy. Sure it's sad and a lot of things went wrong with the Laika mission (and the Soviets didn't learn that much from the "dog missions"), but it wasn't really a tragedy. The flash was meant to be an homage (and a joke about my own sentimentality, I suppose). It's about the history of space travel (not just Soviet space travel... I just chose Laika because of my fond memories of "My Life as a Dog").

yay! you're alive! ^.^, and you're right. It's just very sad how life was simply wasted for as you said no real gain. That's what I was getting after.

Mrr-yes, very much alive, just busy elsewhere. :)
Mostly back to lurking.

That was just wonderful. I have no other words for this masterpiece!