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I really enjoy
using Macromedia's Flash because you can do almost anything
with it...make broadcast-quality animation, program games,
develop print-quality art and, except for the live-editing
capabilities, it beats Powerpoint by a country mile when it
comes to presentations. Below are a few tasty examples of
my Flash handiwork. I hope you enjoy them.
And don't sweat
the Google ads too much. This bandwidth stuff ain't free,
ya know.
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The
Elements. Music by Tom Lehrer. 325kb.
I have long admired the satiric talents of Tom Lehrer and it
just seemed natural to put the words and music of his "Elements"
song into Flash format. This is by far my most popular Flash
animation but I know it's all due to Mr. Lehrer's spritely creation.
I'm pleased to say that this animation was shown after the presentation
of the Chemistry Awards at Harvard's IG Nobel Awards in October
of 2002. |
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Ode
To Scruffy. Music
by Brett Eidman. 1.4 mb.
Comedian Brett Eidman has appeared on Satruday Night Live and with
Second City in Chicago. His song, "Ode to Scruffy" was number one
on the Dr. Demento radio program for some time. He recently
approached me to take it to the next animated step. It uses language
that can be found in the dictionary. Deal with it. No dogs were harmed
in the making of this production, but a lot of barf was projectiled. |
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Rainbow.
Music by Slim Whitman. 480kb.
My parents listened to a lot of country music when I was a kid,
especially songs by Slim Whitman. I must have heard "There's
a Rainbow in Every Teardrop You're Crying" about a kazillion
times while growing up. This animation is my revenge, of sorts.
It's also the reason some people shouldn't be allowed to use
Flash. <grin> |
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A
Little Bush-Bashing. 2.2 mb
And old client developed a new web site, bushdiet.com,
and decided he'd like to advertise it with a bit of animated
political theatre. I was given the song to work with but nothing
else, which was fine with me. I hope you enjoy watching it every
bit as much as I enjoyed making it. |
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What
is Rankism? 550kb.
It may seem obvious to each of us how the caste system that
dominates our lives actually works, but what's most important
is how to break the cycle. This animation, commisioned by the
good folks at breakingranks.net
and created by yours truly, is an introduction to Robert Fuller's
examination of the problem. |
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The
Crocodile Hunterrapin. 350kb.
The good folks at Turtle
TV asked me to animate a short segment for one of
their award-winning movies. This was another of those jobs where
I was delighted to add my painfully amateurish vocal talents.
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American
Greetings Animated Birthday Card Numero Two-o.
140kb.
Another of my world-famous American Greetings animated birthday
cards. The assignment here was to make a card that was interactive
so you can click on the boxes in any order you wish to get the
final payoff. |
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Digital
Media Warehouse. 75kb.
Client:
"Can you animate a lizard crawling across the screen and
morphing into our logo?"
Harried Flash animator: "Uh, yeah." |
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Readeez.com.
150kb.
Readeez.com,
a developer of reading systems for kids needed some sort of
presence for his new, yet-to-be-developed web site and asked
for something cool for potential visitors to use instead of
some plain old form mail. Tell him Mike sent ya. |
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Countdown.
600kb.
A new client from Taiwan (Taiwan!) contacted me about developing
a teaser animation for his new product rollout. It's all about
time and important people. That's all I know. Really. |
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Hanukkah
Cheat Sheet. 600kb.
Don't you just hate it when you can't remember if the lamp is
supposed to burn for eight days or seven days? Well, Leviathan
Press produced a sort of Cliff Notes for Hanukkah
for just this reason and then decided they needed a nifty web
animation to advertise it. That's where I, and this peculiar
animation, come in. It's an odd cross between a horror film,
a spaghetti western, and a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Don't say I didn't
warn ya. |
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Three "Anti-Viral"
animations.
Remote
Backup Systems does all it can to protect your valuable
computer data but it also needed some good advertising, so they
turned to me to develop some viral animations to churn their
message. The result was three fairly amusing animations for
you to share and enjoy. Choose from Bull
(100kb), Boo
(500kb), or The
Dog Ate My Computer (500kb). |
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Stormy
the Storm Drain. 550kb.
The city of Garland, Texas approached me to animate a lively
little 30-second TV spot designed to teach children about
the storm drain system. The crackerjack voiceover was provided
by a Dallas-area rock musician whose name completely escapes
me. |
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The
Last Request. Music by John Fahey. 825kb.
Before a condemned man is executed he is customarily offered
one last meal of his own choice. It's debatable if this is an
act of kindness or simply a cruel joke, but the final choice
that some prisoners make offers an intriguing insight into the
minds of these men and the lives they lived. The Texas Department
of Corrections carefully logs the last meals of their captors
and I offer a few of these choices, along with the men themselves,
for your consumption. |
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Find
One Find All. 568kb.
Find
One Find All is a company that markets a neat little
interoperable device that allows you to link 36 objects to each
other. The idea is, if you can find one of them you can find
all of them. In other words, if you're bad at losing keys, you
need one of these. We emphasized the problem using this cute,
little "Stuff Gremlin", which I animated. |
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Buck
Howdy Animated Intro. 430kb.
Buck
Howdy is a singing cowboy who specializes in the
entertainment of the younger buckaroos out there. His fame grew
to such an extent that a television series, starring old Howdy
himself, was given the green light and I was chosen to develop
an animated opening for it. Yee-haw! The work was about 90%
finished when the producers decided to 'go in another direction'.
Sigh. I present this to you strictly for nostalgia's sake. |
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Garden
Mosaics. 130kb.
Cornell University runs a science-based web site that emphasizes
inner-city, cross-generational gardening. Their home page needed
a little sprucing-up so they had me develop this small yet elegant
"tree growth" widget. |
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Birth
of a Hemi. 2.6Mb.
There's a doctor out in New Jersey who's just NUTS for vintage
Chrysler big-block cars and he has a very nice web site (www.raremopars.com)
showing off all his acquisitions. His adoring wife decided his
site was due a snazzy Flash opening page so she contacted me
to whip one up. This is, by far, the biggest Flash animation
I've ever developed but it was intensely image-laden. If you're
a child of the 60's, or if you love Carmina Burana, you'll LOVE
this one. |
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Time/Motion
Study. 123kb.
There are companies out there whose job it is to help industry
run smoother by analyzing how things get done in factories.
They wanted a series of animations that showed the difference
between a well-run shop and one run the old-fashioend way. This
animation intentionally featured no music or sounds, in case
you're wondering. |
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Sonoprep.
85kb.
Remember 'Bones' the doctor from the original Star Trek television
series? How he'd wave his little wand over you for a second
or two and then use a sort of atomizer to inject miraculous
curatives into his victims, uh, I mean, patients? Well, a company
finally invented one of those injection devices...sort of. Take
a look at this (intentionally soundless) animation to see how
it works. |
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Ziploc.
219kb.
Ziploc bags are amazing bits of technology all on their own,
but the unceasing pace of progress requires that even this humble
storage device innovate or die. This animation, bought and paid
for by the Ziploc folks, shows a few customized options available
for anyone willing to pony up the dough. |
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Turtle
TV
From the folks who brought you Wishbone the Dog for
PBS comes a new concept in on-line entertainment, Turtle TV.
The site is all about, well, turtles and it offers movies, games,
downloads and Flash diversions for all ages. I was hired to
develop the animation for the "Ask Granny" page, which
came out rather nice. In case you're wondering, I also did the
voice of Granny. |
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Mopsey
(A Tribute to a Very Fine Cat) Music by Art Garfunkel.
1mb.
Mopsey was the kind of cat who never met a person she didn't
like and the world is a much smaller place without her. I am
grateful to have known her the last five of her twenty years
on this planet and I animated this small tribute just for her.
If you ever had a pet who was more than "just" an
animal, you'll enjoy this piece. |
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Santa's
Reindeer Glee Club. 78k.
One Xmas season I decided to send a Flash-based Xmas card to
all my friends instead of mailing them the same old thing. One
reason is that it seemed like a cool idea. Another reason is
that I'm unbelievably cheap. This cute lil' stinker is the result. |
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Fuego
Process Ad. 131kb.
Fuego, a company that builds software to control business processes,
needed a short, Flash-based ad for their web site. The amount
of text I had to include was WAY too much information for 30-seconds
of animation but the final result was kind of fun. |
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KERA
Pledge Drive. 53kb.
Radio station KERA in Dallas, Texas, wanted a Flash-based animation
on their web site that would (1) Encourage people to pledge
and (2) Let them know how the current drive was doing. The funny-sounding
voices were a compromise that freed the voice talent from having
to re-record the amount of every new contributions. |
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My
First Flash Web Site. 165kb.
Once Flash 3 was released I knew it was time to build a 100%
Flash-based web site. This 1999 construct was a fun internet
toy but completely useless as a tool to advertise the full spectrum
of my talents. I present it to you strictly in the spirit of
nostalgia. |
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MSquared
Media. 82kb.
A few years ago a friend of mine had me build a web site to
feature her video duplication company. I chose to program the
site in Flash just because I could. This is a good example of
how a handsome, interactive web site can be constructed on a
very small bandwidth footprint. It's the shiznit fashizzle,
or something like that. |
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Snugwear.
40kb.
The Macromedia company held a contest to see who could build
the best commercial web site that used less than 45k for the
opening segment. I didn't win the contest but I now have a great
Flash demo to show off. |
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Great
Expectorations
I was fortunate enough to spend the real millennium in France
in 2001, not that fake year-2000 one. Rather than inflict a
zillion blurry tourist photos of the experience (which involved
a lot of spitting off of the tops real old buildings) on my
friends and family I decided to build this snazzy Flash spectacular.
The site is very image-intensive but it loads in segments so
it's easy on the bandwidth. |
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The
ATTopia Arcade. 49kb.
Several years ago I had an assignment that involved programming
some really boring Flash-based instructional courses for new
hires at AT&T. The only entertaining part of the whole shebang
was this one bit of frivolous navigation that I somehow talked
them into. It's pointless, but amusing. |
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The
Harbor. 244kb.
This was used as a splash animation for an on-line company that
sells clothing for skiers. If you like old Road-Runner cartoons
you might want to take a quick peek at this offering.
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Mike Stanfill, Private Hand - 2330 Jonesboro - Dallas, TX 75228 - 214-320-2293 |
