Animator vs. Animation is the first episode of the Animator vs. Animation Series, also being the first episode of Animator vs. Animation Season 1. It was released on Newgrounds on June 3rd, 2006, on YouTube on May 14th, 2007, and on atom.com on September 12th, 2007.

Synopsis

An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself. A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure will be using everything he can find - the brush tool, the eraser tool, etc. - to get back at his tormentor. It's resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself.

Plot

The Animator creates a black stick figure, clicks on it, chooses "Convert to Symbol", and names it victim. victim looks around himself, and attempts to escape the box he is in. His initial attempts at escaping are fruitless, and the Animator spins the box around, slightly harming victim and sparking his dislike towards his creator. His hatred only grows in the Animator's next act of torment towards victim, when the Animator tries to crush him by drawing a rock above his head. victim manages to push the box he is trapped in on its side, causing the rock to break the box without him getting harmed, and allowing him to escape in the process. His dislike for his creator causes him to throw parts of the box he had been trapped in at the cursor, before he jumps onto it and eventually gets to the tool pane. The Animator selects the lasso tool and ties a rope around victim's body, swinging him around, but victim manages to take the magnifying glass tool from the tool pane, smashing it against the cursor and escaping.

victim takes a line and a pen tool, connects them together, and uses it to cut the lasso. Meanwhile, the Animator draws a plasma gun. victim takes the text tool and bends it into a bow, and as the cursor finishes drawing the plasma gun, he uses the bow to fire the tool he used to cut the lasso at the cursor as an arrow. The Animator attempts to shoot victim with the plasma gun, but the stick figure dodges two of the plasma blasts before using the eyedropper tool as a sort of water gun to shoot water into the plasma gun, causing it to malfunction and explode. The explosion from the plasma gun causes some of the frames of the animation timeline to fall out, and the Animator hits two of these towards victim, who blocks them with the eraser tool. The Animator then gets an idea. As victim heads over to the right side of the animation window with the brush and eraser tool, the Animator creates a turret that catches the timeline frames and shoots them out, turning the turret so that it faces victim. victim is hit by a couple of these frames, before using the eraser tool as a shield and then drawing a line with the brush tool that acts as a larger shield. He then uses this line as a slingshot to shoot the eraser tool at the turret, splitting it in half and rendering it useless. victim then opens the flash library as the Animator draws a sword, scribbles over it, then draws a ninja star. The Animator then grabs this ninja star and throws it at victim, but victim manages to dodge the attack.

The Animator, in an act of desperation, ties victim up with the lasso tool, before selecting his symbol and almost clicking delete. Before the Animator could delete victim, however, the stick figure uses the brush tool to draw a line over the delete button, preventing the Animator from deleting him. This defensive act from victim shocked the Animator, giving victim a small window of time to free himself from the rope he was entangled in, and then use the brush tool to smack the cursor. victim draws a line beneath his symbol, jumps on the line, and lengthens it, before cloning himself by pulling a clone out of his symbol. The Animator then takes victim's brush tool, and the clone jumps on the cursor to try and get it back. victim throws two more clones at the cursor, and these clones grab each other's legs, before the Animator throws them all up to the animation timeline and throws the brush tool away to where neither victim nor his clones can get it. In the meantime, victim creates another clone, telling it to grab the ninja star from earlier. The clone takes this ninja star, the original victim creates a lasso from the rope the Animator had entangled him in seconds prior, two of the other clones create a hammer and a chain as weapons for themselves using the timeline frames, and the last clone takes a pin and stretches it into a sword. One of the clones attempts to use the chain of frames to hit the cursor, another uses the sword to hit the cursor twice, another throws the ninja star at the cursor, and finally, the other clone tries to hit the cursor with the hammer. The original victim then lassos the cursor and gives the lasso to the clone who had previously wielded the ninja star, and the other clones attack the helpless cursor. The original victim then grabs the ninja star, but the Animator manages to reach the button that closes the window, clicking it, and choosing to exit without saving the changes, supposedly ending victim's brief existence.

Characters

Protagonists

• victim (debut)

  • victim's Clones (debut)

Antagonists

• noogai3 (debut)

Other Characters

• My Computer (widescreen version only)

• Internet Explorer (widescreen version only)

• iTunes (widescreen version only)

• Macromedia Flash (widescreen version only)

Trivia

• This is the first animation with sound effects from Pink Army.

• This episode makes a cameo in Animation vs. YouTube.

• According to Alan, he was offered $75 to sell the rights to the animation to a different website.

• In the HD version of this episode, the original instance of victim standing at the scrollbar has an idle animation. In the original version, he just stays unanimated.

• This episode has been remade in the beginning of Victim - Animator vs. Animation 11.