House of Deadleg – Illustration & Graphic Design by Simon Whittaker

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…

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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Apologies for the lack of recent updates. This is mainly due to working extra long hours at work over the last 2 months & for the foreseeable future. Even though I haven’t been posting much I have been working hard. I have a collection of scribbled on Post-It notes waiting to be scanned, I’ve been working on a couple of new tee designs & i’ve been learning a bit of Flash. I finished my first (slightly ropey) Flash animation earlier this evening, but unfortunately WP won’t allow it to be posted. I’ll look into this & try to get it posted ASAP.