A Valentine's Day e-card. It's personalized, but you might like it anyways. It has music.
Originally 1280x720. Made it last week but it was a rather convoluted path to embed the swf. It took more time to get the embedding to work right than to animate and paint it. For those interested, I'll post the how-to in the comments.
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For those interested in the technical how-to for embedding swfs:
1) Upload the swf file on your own server or a free file hosting site. Make sure the hosting site allows direct linking to the swf file itself, not just an html page. Direct linking is needed for embedding.
2) In your Blogger post, go to edit html view. Copy and paste this code, replacing the src weblink with your own.
<99embed src="http://www.yourwebsite.com/yourfilename.swf" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="225" width="400"> <99/embed>
Remove the 99's. That's just there so the code is visible in this comment.
Seems simple? It is. The only tricky part is finding a hosting site that allows embedding. Lots of sites say that they do, but they actually don't. I used FileDen.com. Allows direct linking and is very easy to use, but lots of annoying ads and promo surveys to have to click "skip" to before you can upload. If you don't like that, you may have to use trial and error to find a free host that allows direct linking.
Hope this helps.
I won't lie... I expected the balloon to pop at the end of the song and the elephant to fall.
That was nice though. Funny too!
haha same! i thought it would pop at the end too!
haha its so cute ben!
and u used you guy's song! (right?)
lols
are you a brown elephant :o
aww thats really cute, Ben! haha. made me all warm and fuzzy inside. =)
Unlike Garrett and Vivian, i didn't expect the balloon to pop.....I actually expected an airplane or something to fly by and THEN pop the balloon. =P
i love this ben ! i wish i thought of it (and could do it) first :) u guys are a really cute couple.
cute card Ben :D
Fantastic, Ben! Great colours and tempo.
thanks everyone!
garrett, vivian, andrew - I know, it's sort of setup so you'd expect something like that to happen, but since it might be a metaphor for our relationship, we shouldn't have any popping and falling, can we?
viv - nope, i'm not a brown elephant, and there's actually no hidden meaning this time. I just thought it would be cute to have a balloon lift an elephant. i have no idea why it's brown. mud? a tan? :P
dalmer - thanks! you and star are a really beautiful couple! saw your wedding photos on andrea's photo thing, very cool!
el - thanks! we should all hang out more.
chechik - thanks for the compliments! hope you had a good vacation, you'll have to tell me about it over sketching.
thanks everyone!
garrett, vivian, andrew - I know, it's sort of setup so you'd expect something like that to happen, but since it might be a metaphor for our relationship, we shouldn't have any popping and falling, can we?
viv - nope, i'm not a brown elephant, and there's actually no hidden meaning this time. I just thought it would be cute to have a balloon lift an elephant. i have no idea why it's brown. mud? a tan? :P
dalmer - thanks! you and star are a really beautiful couple! saw your wedding photos on andrea's photo thing, very cool!
el - thanks! we should all hang out more.
chechik - thanks for the compliments! hope you had a good vacation, you'll have to tell me about it over sketching.
I love it! Thanks for sharing. Mena
PS. Check my blog mena-art.blogspot.com I'd like to get comments to improve. :)
awsome animation, and much needed flash info, thanks!
I remember when you showed this to me in Feb :) Any chance I could get a shot of the background & Elephant? it'd make a lovely wallpaper. one with and one without the elephant if you don't mind. Nice song choice too, BenBen.
this music is with movie breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn then it sang. :D I love this movie <3
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