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I'm glad to see The Internet Archive doing this. There's a flash animation I used to enjoy back around 2000 and I have been looking for it for almost as long. It was basically a showcase animation sequence done by what I think was a Japanese designer. I don't remember the full sequence but it was an anime style animation and at the end was a girl standing on a cliff with her hair blowing in the wind.

I'm really hoping it will end up on The Internet Archive. I sure would like to see it again. It was very beautiful.

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The animation you’re looking for might already be in BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint (https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/), a Flash preservation project that started in 2018. Here’s their list of preserved Flash animations: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Animation_Master_L....

I’m surprised that so few people in these comments seem aware of Flashpoint, and that the linked article only mentions Flashpoint briefly at the end.

I expect Flashpoint to always have a bigger archive of SWFs than the Internet Archive. This is because the Internet Archive seems to be aiming to only host SWFs that can be compiled for web using Ruffle, while Flashpoint accepts any SWF that can be played by the official Flash Player. Flashpoint can do that because it targets users who are willing to install its archive-browsing software for Windows, which includes a version of Flash Player.

Was it "Yukino" perhaps? https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31167703

That is the one that I still remembered so vividly that this post motivated me to download a Flash player and look through my folder of SWF files for the first time in probably at least 15 years.

Unfortunately, no. That one is quite nice as well, though.

If it was reasonably popular, you could try asking https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

I've tried but haven't had any luck. I think my memory of the animation just isn't enough to be able to provide enough detail other than a girl standing on a cliff with the wind blowing her hair. I feel like flower pedals were blowing around too but at this point it's been 15-20 years since I've seen it so who knows what is accurate about that memory?

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