Harebrained News is the blog of Maija Graham, an artist, educational media developer, graphic designer, and schemer.
Flash

Robin Arseneault: Curios

robinswarm-thClick here to see Curios in action.

Robin told me she wanted to add a section to her site where she could post new things but she didn’t want a blog. So I came up with this swirling 3-dimensional cloud of non-linear randomness.

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Rollover interactives

Roll over interactivesClick here to see examples of a rollover interactive

Rollover interactives are a compact way to show more information about a diagram than will fit in the space available.

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Here be Drag 'n' Drops

Here be drag-and-dropsClick here to see the four versions of the drag-and-drop exercise

Drag and drop exercises have been used frequently in the online courses I have collaborated on because they can be used to quickly self-test knowledge without a lot of keystrokes.

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Beyond Magazine animations

Beyond Magazine Flash elementsArchive of Flash elements from beyondmag.com

Animated Flash elements created for the website of Beyond Magazine, a not-for-profit, independent, free of advertising, beautiful “little magazine about a lot of things”.

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Oil Origins animation

SAIT Polytechnic Oil Formation animationClick here to watch an excerpt from The Origins of Oil

This is an excerpt from an animated slide show I created for a Petroleum course at SAIT Polytechnic to illustrate how oil is formed. There is no audio and it is only a short loop, like a meditative Paleozoic screen-saver.

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Dip-tacular party invitation

Christmas Festive Dip-tacular invitationClick here to watch the Christmas Festive Dip-tacular invitation

When I’m not coming up with strange and wonderful new ideas for get-togethers involving food, I’m animating invitations to them.

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Stampede Party invitation

The SouvenirClick here to watch The Souvenir

This is probably my most cinematic and labour-intensive foray into animation, all for a party invitation.

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Corrosion of Iron animation

Alberta Learning Corrosion animationAn excerpt from a longer animation developed on sub-contract to the Learning Commons at the University of Calgary for the Alberta Learning Chemistry Learning Objects repository.

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Voltaic Cell animation

Alberta Learning Voltaic Cell animationClick here to watch an excerpt from Voltaic Cell

An excerpt from a longer animation developed on sub-contract to the Learning Commons at the University of Calgary for the Alberta Learning Chemistry Learning Objects repository.

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Waffle Party invitation

Waffle Party inviteClick here to watch the Waffle Party invitation

Sometimes, when I’m not busy enough, I animate elaborate party invitations in Flash. For the audio, I recorded myself several times so I sound like a chorus and pitch-shifted the voices a bit higher.

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