Select a page from this lovely 'pull-down' list ---> MAIN INDEX PAGE...................... Fairly simple, this one! An index of my sites...see? WHAT'S NEW PAGE.................. Make a wild guess what this page could be about FEEDBACK PAGE....................... Go on, tell me what you think of all this dumb stuff THE SOFA OF FUN..................... A kind of selection of things, generally FLASH MOVIES............................ RETURN TO THE FLASH MOVIES INDEX! JONATHAN CREEK.................... A bloody good programme the BBC make! ARTY FARTY PAGE................... Your chance to see things I've made and drawn THE WHEELS OF FIRE............. The ins-and-outs of building my Kitcar BOND BUGGERY........................ The joy of owning a freaky car that's older than I am DOG FACED BOY........................ Some of my writings and thoughts (MORE BELOW) INDIE MAGAZINE......................... Some of my writings for Indie Magazine A'BURY WITH BOB & CURLY. Two teddy bears take you on a tour of this historic town NAKED PHOTO ALBUM............ It does exactly what it says on the tin JUDITHS BEARS OF DOOM... So-called 'Cuddly' Toys and their evil plans ONLINE SHOP!............................. T-shirts, Posters, all sorts of goodies to treasure forever! A TALE OF MONKEYS............... Surreal stuff from other people. E-mail me your story! T.M.T.O.M.H.................................... Proof that I have Too Much Time On My Hands DVD COLLECTION....................... My digitally enhanced film recommendations INFORMATION............................... A little about my web site and its history

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-Constant. As seen in the past on the front page of my site, this animation was the first I felt of good enough quality to expose to an unwitting world. I could go on about the number of layers and objects... but that's dull, so I'll just point out if you (PC users) right click on it, you can stop it playing over and over and over and over and over again. -Constant This was used on the opening page for a bit too. The text says it all! Another experimental Flash-5 animation using many layers and reused objects to minimise the file size. Damn, isn't all this technical chit-chat fun?! Again, PC users (people with Macs, I fail to understand how you live with just one mouse button) can right click on the image to zoom in, or loop the animation. The new opening page image, inspired by a conversation with a lovely Internet buddy (you know who you are!) who's also into animation. With this Flash Movie, I explored shape morphing (very cool) and translucent layered objects. It all worked rather well I think! :-) (Oh yes, and if you're a bit dim, is supposed to be a lava lamp! [Buy Mathmos - accept no substitute]) Just a quick spotty movie. Perhaps it's a teenaged animation? Anyway, it's very simple, and only took 5 sweaty minutes to create. Ah! So it is a teenager! I'd like to inform you at this point that I'm available to do Flash Animations for other peoples sites. If you need a little something to jazz up your front page, e-mail me, and let me know what you'd like! (Very reasonable rates, naturally.) -Once, when it's running. Click on the button at the bottom of the animation to play it again. New to the front page in early October 2001, this animation is clearly inspired by the work of 'pop-artist' (which is a very unfair title as it makes him sound like a member of Steps) Andy Worhol. Andy tragically died from an overdose of peroxide hair dye. This is something I've vowed, in his memory, to never allow to happen to me. Above: In November 2001 I moved my site from a free-hoster (Tripod.com) to my own www.snapsandbytes.co.uk location. In a small celebration of this, I originally created this small 'day-in-the-life' animation for the new front page. It's interactive: Pass your mouse over it, it stops. Move your mouse off it, it starts again, and click on it to go into the frame structure version of this site. i.e. Text links on the left and the Index page on the right. There was once four of these animations on the opening page to play with. Getting them out of sequence was strangely enjoyable. Below: In December I revisited the animation, added some sounds I found on the web to give it extra impact, swapped the mouse-over states and made it bigger (oh the joy of vector based graphics. So damn scalable!) to also more dominate the opening page. It's still only a 34k file though. -On Mouse Passover Only! 4k. That's all this is. Four tiny kilobytes of fun. It's been in use on the opening (or 'front', as I like to think of it) page and elsewhere on my site. And it's just 4k! It also has a transparent background, vital for the front page because of its background. -On Mouse Passover Only! Another bored Sunday (this one in early March 2002) and another funktastic animation for the opening page. This used some of the things I'd learned how to do recently, like the correct way to make a button and the use of a mask layer. Nice, isn't it? An unused 'Welcome to the World of Paul Smith' sort of thing that was going to be on the front page once. I decided it looked too busy. Try stopping it (right-click and select PLAY) and zoom in (right-click and select ZOOM IN) to get a better view of the Earth and various orbiting moons. -On Mouse Passover Only! This animation is on the very first page visitors to my site see. Clicking it will take you into the frame structure of my site, so I don't recommend you do, unless you really want to get lost in the bowels of these pages... -On Mouse Passover Only! The animation above was made in 2002 to publicise my (then) new T-Shirt design business. Feel free to click on it and buy one of my designs for yourself! Click here to visit the opening index page, where there are lots more welcoming Flash things. The animation above was made in May 2003 for the official Chiltern Sculpture Trail web site, which I was commissioned to write by the Chiltern Sculpture Trust. There's a development version here, if you'd like to see it too.

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