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The bouncing truck animations started in the beginning
of 2005 on a off road truck enthusiast web forum named PavementSucks.com. I drew
out the first mini trucks to be used as AIM icons just for fun. Within a month I
started drawing out bigger more details ones that bounced. Requests started
pouring in for custom bouncing trucks for people to use as their avatars. They
all started out with the simplest of programs. MS Paint was the program used to
draw out every truck in the beginning and animating them in a free version of
Ulead GIF Editor. MS Paint still remains the main program for drawing them out
as it gives you complete control over every single pixel. In later animated
trucks Adobe Photoshop was used to draw in more advanced windshields and
elements.
The first bouncing truck animations were drawn by
me, with no help from anyone else. A few members of PavementSucks.com tried
drawing one here or there but the request kept pouring in. With such a demand
and no time for creating them with a busy work schedule, these trucks fell to
the back burner. Working a regular full time job, starting a business up with a
friend and wrenching on the truck left little time to draw up custom ones for
people. A member of PavementSucks.com (Ken / outalne94z71) started
helping out in filling the requests in my absence. I would hop in and try my
hand at unusual requests and draw up new parts Ken needed to complete requests.
I would get emails here and there asking for a certain make or model body or
certain type of tires so he could complete an animation for someone.
To this day Ken and myself remain the primary
creators of the original bouncing trucks that started back in 2005. I greatly
appreciate the help that Ken has offered in helping my idea sweep the nation.
These animated trucks have been seen on multiple different discussion forums
sites across the world. They have been seen on graphic & clip art sites, informational
web pages and even on multiple different social networking sites. Others have
started drawing their own versions and a few even claim theirs are original. But
this is and will remain the true home of the original Bouncing Trucks.
-Jeff / Crow5716
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