House of Deadleg – Illustration & Graphic Design by Simon Whittaker

This is a bit of a sneaky peek at something i’ve been working on this week, i’ll post the full & proper thing up sometime later in the week.

Crunchy Frog 3D Product Shot

Frog Mariachi - made for Crunchy Frog packaging but then not required

I’ve been a fan of Adam & Joe since they were on the telly, but I didn’t realise they had a radio show until last year when I discovered podcasts. The weekly download keeps me going into the early hours at work & doubtless annoys the hell out of the people sitting next to me when I start giggling like a loon & spitting coffee everywhere.

As part of my program of teaching myself Flash I decided to try & extend the Podmax illustration I did & to try & make it animated. This then developed into trying to make it fully interactive. The results can be seen below.

There are currently 5 clickable buttons that trigger sound clips & 2 draggable objects. If anyone has any suggestions for sound clips they’d like including as extra buttons then please let me know & i’ll try to include them. When I get chance & learn more Flash/Actionscript I’ll add extra bits & bobs & more sounds, etc.

For now enjoy…

The Adam & Joe Podmax

I’m a big fan of Adam & Joe, & the podcast of their radio show keeps me going well into the early hours at work. This is the original version I made, when for some reason I thought that Joe had blond hair, whereas I believe he’s actually a brunette. I’ve since updated it slightly & i’ll post a sexied up version ASAP.

Apologies to anyone who followed a link from Twitter to my last post to find nothing but a link to the Flash Player download page, I had a little trouble working out how to get this to display. But here it is, my first attempt at Flash animation, & even though it’s only really simple & there’s probably a hundred better & easier ways to do the same thing, i’m quite chuffed with it.

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