M3tatweening Phase 3 & 4 combined (25 mins) now online again in DVD res - An epic B3ta collaboration from 2003. I made this!
The original m3tatweening webpage - www.fnord.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m3tatweening.htm

Please watch full screen or at least in 720x576 embedded size on the main m3tatweening page.

This began at the start of 2003 as an idea to make a stream of consciousness animated gif connected by keyframes and using many people independent of each other to fill in the gaps. I got such a huge response that Phase 1 ended up with over 20 people getting involved and it ended up becoming a video.

Then Phase 2 began with the last frame of Phase 1 and got even more people involved who'd seen Phase 1 and wanted to take part. After that I decided to make a new strand for Phase 3 using DVD res keyframes (720 x 576), which made everything that much better and encouraged people to use all kinds of animation, really freeing them up to do even more surprising things.

So in all there were 44 segments in Phase 3 & 4, some people ended up doing a couple to fill in when others had to drop out but it remained a case of nobody knowing what was coming before or after them untiil they saw the finished thing.

The size/length of this meant that at the time it was hard to keep hosted at full quality so most people only got to see the lesser version. Vimeo let me upload any length and it's just under the 500MB limit so it's perfect.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 10:57, Reply)

I see lots of words up there but they don't mean anything.

(pissflaps is reading., Fri 6 Nov 2009, 11:31, Reply)

so let me edit your copy
its the pencil and paper game consequences...with animated gifs
(DefyingDarwin (formerly Wordbomb), Fri 6 Nov 2009, 11:38, Reply)

A similar concept, but not based on that, yes.
People used claymation, photography, 3D rendering, MS paint and more by the time it got to these phases.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 12:02, Reply)

I think I still have this
from when I downloaded it at the time :)
( Mushroom, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 13:40, Reply)

Well, that's lovely
much fluffness
( kfk Kiss her? I am gonna DESTROY her!, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 14:04, Reply)

Yaaaaaay!
I'd forgotten all about m3tatweening. That was fun. Good to see it online now. :)
( eclectech, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 21:29, Reply)

I was in phase 1
I think. T'was/is a great idea
( Flash_Bastard, Sat 7 Nov 2009, 0:15, Reply)