If there isn't any action below, you've not got the right Flash player.
Visit www.macromedia.com,
where you'll find the perfect plug-in.
A small advert! ;-)
Again, right-clicking on the Flash window will bring up an options box, where you can select play, reduce the play-back quality for low-spec.
PCs, etc. (Note for attractive women. I don't actually like eggs, but the fried slice and ketchup looks very nice! If you want to make a
good impression, I like to be served breakfast in bed... Cornflakes and toast would be lovely, thanks.)
Hey! Wow! My very own short animated (silent) movie!
AYLESBURY - A tale of Horror may not be Citizen Kane, but it does use similar deep-focus techniques. Honest. Anyway, it runs
quite slow on some PCs, so feel free to right click on it and select LOW or MEDIUM from the QUALITY menu. Sadly I couldn't find a happy
way to add sound to the animation, so it remains in subtitle only form. So, grab some popcorn, a loud packet of sweets and put
your feet up! Click on the box above or this link to run VT!
-Constant.
As the label says, this is an audio test. The names are the descriptions that Macromedia Flash 5 gives to it's built-in audio clips.
It may work better if you stop (by right-clicking and selecting 'play' to halt the action) all the other animations on this page. Especially the
ones with sounds embedded.
Used on my Sofa of Fun page, this animation was a little experiment
in Morphing between images. It works, but it's far from perfect to my critical eye.
Thanks for visiting me this wonderful Christmas time!
I'd like to wish all my visitors a very happy Christmas and a fun-packed 2002.
May the coming year bring you all you hope for, and then some.
Ok, I admit the animation above wasn't made with Flash. It's just two animated and one static GIF,
two of which have transparent backgrounds, arranged in a table. It was made for the main Index page just
before Christmas 2001 and the whole thing comes to about 12k. A nice effect from a tiny file.
A slight change of style, this one. It's a single frame 'movie' (which I think makes it more of a 'still', but that's just me)
which uses buttons to make elements visible or invisible. Thus, clicking away can produce some funny (and some chilling!) results.
Go on, give it a go. What possible harm could it do?
In January 2002 Judith and I visited The Uffington White Horse hill figure and
Waylands Smithy, an ancient tomb in
The Vale of the White Horse, not far from Oxford. Clicking the above image
downloads a 2Mb / 30 second video clip of our adventure. Clearly not a Flash Animation,
but interesting never-the-less. It was actually shot with my camcorder, which at the time I'd just bought.
Handy-hint: Turn off the sound of all the animations on this page
before doing this! The easy way is to right-click the ones with a 'SOUND'
logo under them and stopping them playing.
Made for The 'Robin Hood Owners Club and Register' (ROCaR) web site, this animation features
my first proper use of self-made buttons, with text that changes colour when you pass over or click it.
It's not, like, a big deal or anything. I just thought it was worth mentioning.
This file is also now on the Wheels of Fire page. Near the bottom.
Time waits for no man, they say.
This wee animation (12k, and it counts up to an hour) was made for a new extension to my sites frame system in late March 2002.
In theory you should also be able to see it at the top of the page. Is it there? Anyway, it uses slightly
different versions of the same counting movie-clip to give the illusion of a timer. It should be fairly accurate, and I think it's
a very handy way of keeping track of time spent admiring my pages.
I thought it'd be interesting for you to see how I can transform any old
picture (in this case a favourite from page 157 of 'More Basic Computer
Games', published in 1979. [ISBN: 0-89480-137-6]) into an animation.
I begin by scanning the original picture in, converting it into a nice
vector-based graphic, editing it a bit, adding the animated elements
and then finally including stereo sounds. And thus I breathe life into
a still line drawing. (With buttons to turn the sound off if you want to.)
-Constant and very anoying. Click on the RED BUTTON to stop the din.
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