impressive all thigns considered.
frame by frame hand drawn animation is practically a lost art these days. it was well done congrats on the 3rd place it is worth it for the effort placed into it. however it felt very incomplete. part of a good animation is having patience to make a plotted animation with a story. there are plenty of techniques to handle the file size issue instead of releasing it as an flv you can input it frame by fame into adobe flash and it will dramatically reduce the file size. it isnt an easy take it is arduous tedious and time consuming but in the end you come out with a better looking and longer animation. compressing sound is also a good way to optimize the actual file size and that is added separate when doing FbF animations. just eeking by on a limitation doesn't in its self make it impressive. but the work got done. with more practice you can make it work even better. file size is the bane of people who are new to these things. i remember when the file size limit was 4megs. :) good work all in all though.