Evolution [Animation]

READ BEFORE COMMENTING:
"You skipped the Permian and Triassic" - YES, because the music was too short to include everything (or I didn't have a good enough idea to do so in that short time frame)
"Why no humans" - because I'm horrible at drawing humans
"Why no t-rex" - T-rex is overdone and overrated af
"I don't believe in evolution but it's a nice animation" - That's fine with me, thank you
"hurrdurr evolution is fake and you are stupid" - I will delete your comment

I heavily used one of Frederic Wierum's allosaurus drawings as a reference, so - credit to him!
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This is pretty much my first animation ever. It was done as a college application for FH (college) Salzburg (course "Multimediaart"). The task was a short animation (minimum 20 seconds, maximum 2 minutes) with any medium and topic of one's own choice. I got the idea when I heard the music I've used here for the first time. It didn't turn out 100% as I imagined it - reason being my excessive procrastination - but I think it's still not bad for my first try. :]
All I wanted to do was to portray over 500 million years (not counting single-cell organisms and the like) of evolution, including some of the most bizarre creatures many people have never heard of, in under 2 minutes, and I'd say I achieved that.
Unfortunately, it was not enough to get accepted.

It wasn't as difficult to make as expected. I learned pretty fast with the help of a few Youtube tutorials. But it did take a bit longer than I thought. I began - I think at the end of - December and got finished just two days ago (which was the deadline for my college application). I didn't do much in January and February though, which still annoys me, but oh well. I'm just glad I got it done.

Enjoy!

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In case anyone cares, here's a timeline (stating the approximate time the animals shown lived, not when the period started) + species seen + some notes I find interesting (it might be not 100% correct; feel free to tell me if I wrote something wrong!):
00:00 - 00:18: 3.5 billion years ago; first single celled organisms
00:19 - 00:20: Cambrian, over 500 million years ago; Opabinia, Pikaia, Anomalocaris, Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia - Pikaia is thought to be the oldest ancestor of fish and, thus, of us. It's the first animal with a notochord. (Those are NOT the first animals in general. The first animals didn't move a lot though, so that would have been boring to watch D:)
00:21 - 00:23: Ordovician Period, ~460 million years ago; Arandaspis, Pteraspis, Promissum, Cameroceras - first fishes
00:24: Silurian Period, ~420 million years ago; Andreolepis
00:25 - 00:31: Devonian Period, ~390-360 million years ago; Pituriaspida, Dunkleosteus, Eusthenopteron, Panderitchthys, Tiktaalik, Ichthyostega - The last four are very important steps in the evolution from fins to legs, from fish to amphibia. (NOT the first animals on land though, those were arthropods, over 400 million years ago.)
00:32: Carboniferous Period, ~348 million years ago; Pederpes
00:33 - 00:38: Carboniferous Period, ~312-302 million years ago; Hylonomus, Petrolacosaurus - First reptiles.

~Big time jump because I didn't have the time to include the Permian and Triassic. :( The Permian featured the first Therapsids - "mammal-like reptiles". As the name suggests, they were the intermediate step from reptiles to mammals, and they looked just like that (go check out Estemmenosuchus and Gorgonopsia for example). The Triassic gave rise to the first mammals and dinosaurs. I COULD have gone with Herrerasaurus as the big theropod so as not to skip the Triassic, but I wanted an even bigger one, so I jumped right to Allosaurus (12m vs 6m length!), which is also more popular, so that was a bonus.
Another noteworthy animal group that lived on until 66 million years ago were the pterosaurs, flying reptiles (NOT dinosaurs).~

00:39 - 00:57: Jurassic Period, ~150 million years ago; Ornitholestes, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus - I didn't show it here, but first birds were around in that period, too (check out Archaeopteryx).
00:58 - 1:16: Cretaceous Period, ~75-66 million years ago; Parasaurolophus, Triceratops
01:18: generic mammal which is supposed to symbolize that small mammals survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event and now, without dinosaurs around, could finally prosper
01:19 - 1:22: Paleogene Period, ~50-30 million years ago; Pakicetus, Diacodexis, Andrewsarchus, Embolotherium, Paraceratherium
01:23 - end: Neogene Period to Holocene (current geological epoch), ~7 million years ago to modern times; Titanis, Short-faced bear, Smilodon, some generic horse, mammoth, Ancylotherium, Ardipithecus, Woolly Rhinoceros, Megatherium, Macrauchenia, Thylacinus

Sadly, I really had to rush the end, so that isn't fleshed out or just not animated at all.
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Everything was done in Adobe Flash CS5.

Music: Trailer Soundtrack for "Planetary Annihilation - Titans"