so did Norio use flash?

Flash for this?

That program couldn't produce lines of this quality even if it wanted to.

Not sure if the question was tongue-in-cheek or not. If so then pardon me. I missed it entirely.

Flash can make proper lines when you change the settings correctly.
I remember seeing the cut that starts at 00:07 in post #11684 on twitter, and I think it was made in flash.

Habarudo said:
Flash can make proper lines when you change the settings correctly.
I remember seeing the cut that starts at 00:07 in post #11684 on twitter, and I think it was made in flash.

I think I've seen that.
It was a study done by a young animator, IIRC, not Matsumoto's original animation.

I mean it has been done before, Bahi's animation drawn over in pencil, I see the possibility of Norio using flash and going over it in a semi bitmap based program like Retas.

Let me clarify.

Flash is not able to do those kinds of textured pencil lines. Not natively.

It's a great piece of software for timing and tweened animation as found in Wakfu, but its vector-based drawing engine would fall apart trying to draw lines directly seen above.

Importing bitmapped images right into the timeline would be one way to say the animation was "Done in Flash." Not very practical, but totally possible.

As brought up here, timing rough animation in Flash is done all the time. It's strong at that and I can absolutely see Japanese animators using the software for that purpose.

Quick, dirty, and hassle-free. That would be Flash for timing rough animation.

Anything outside of that is painful and time-consuming.