One of my friends told me that his co-worker wanted to redesign the company website and use a lot of animated gifs to make it "exciting". (hmmmmmm.... there's a thought...)... (on another note, welcome to "animated gif hell")... |
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| the restaurant story | another christmas story | wild west monkey | the mailman story |
Hey, I'm not crazy about animated gifs, but... I have to admit, for the time that I was initially putting this site together, I did find it kind of amusing. Yeah, it's true, I think animated gifs can be annoying, but... unless they're done in a "tasteful" way, (or... happen to be out of the ordinary), they can be pretty alright. Now... unless you've actually gone to those particular sections where I placed the animated gifs, you'll have no idea what these here are. As for the ones in this section, no matter how silly or lame as they can be, each served their purpose, and... aside from the ones above that were used in the "children's stuff" section, I think that the other ones were more interesting, or... at least worthwhile showing here. |
 alien abduction story |
For example... this image here to the left, was originally for the header for a children's story I wanted to do about a boy getting abducted by aliens, and I thought it'd be really funny to do a little stick figure abduction thing, but... for what I wanted, the file was too large to have people "waiting" on it, so... modified it about as basic as i could get it. It worked out fine, but... I never was "completely" happy with it. |
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| rotating razor blade | frog in a tea cup | turtle - love | broken heart |
See... what did I tell you... ? how much fun were these animated gifs to see around this site. For those of you who have taken the time, the razor blade (above and below), are from "songs to kill yourself to", the frog trapped in the tea cup is right on the main page, (if you watch him long enough, you'll see him *blink* in a very subtle way. Uhmmmm... as for "turtle-love", (one of my favorites), well, check out the "dark stuff" section and also the limerick that reads next to it. Then there's the beating broken heart from the "great love songs" section, (which by the way, I'm considering working on a volume IV to... am very excited about that)... |
slicing razor
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for the 3 animated gifs just above here, everyone who's been to the
"dark stuff" section
is sure to see the "boiling skeleton" welcoming you inside
with a short disclaimer. The one in the middle was for a "job",
which... I'm... kind of believing wasn't used even though I was paid
for it. Was for a product called "hydrant", and... well,
they wanted a dog urinating on a hydrant. Click on it check it out,
it's fun. For all those people who never take the opportunity to say "hello" or send an email my way (and believe me, I do appreciate them), you would all have missed the "email" section where there was a nice tailored form with the "punk-ass" royalty frog on it. Once again, the gif I had in mind was slightly longer, but... too long for anyone to wait to see it unless they were writing a long message. Here, you can find the full length when the frog "peaks out" a first time before actually emerging from the mug to release a fly. (Go ahead, send me email and check it out... !)... |
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as far as this one goes, it's the original "alien abduction"
gif that was cut from the site on the file size being too big. (898k).
Check it out if you dare, it's pretty hefty but... funny to watch....
(sort of)... Now... would I make any more animated gifs given the chance... ? hmmmmm.... ? I don't know... I... think I'd like to have a little fun with flash... maybe see how silly I can get... |
 alien abduction (original) |
