Lately, I've been devoting a lot of my time to some simple animations. Initially, I used them as a frontispiece for my website (idea completely stolen from my buddy
R. Kikuo Johnson. He made something beautiful, I figured I could make it cheap and crude in my own way.)
The first one I did was relatively simple. A quick unexpected outcome to the first image.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_xA6jedgV9A8lqLYTW0M9yIrCGbPXFQv1QqK6qd5gud760o8A-duYJVj4VxsMoE4SfspNtRavxJEIqF06t5w5U4hpEhdlFYNhmoM4kCpvb8O7NRRgSkEY_dOMQW6WTlCIqJAL6jKGJZSm/s320/smitethseq.jpg)
Then I realized that there was a bigger possibility for using that relatively (like geologically relative) "new" format of HTML code to do things that one image couldn't. Typically, a pretty normal image followed by a more outlandish one acheives the desired effect.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9rKD6f-Sz7lV6C1BJoYb1FfZ5_hS0WDG18vS3DSCtqfCbk07Unr8eFmaRtSR_oW2tuVU_fY6ui-pmsAAdMJdlHjZD1-MFoCfnXCTKmrCe25aFmjpfImGJIuJhqlSR4UlO7alH82nL-lVj/s320/openheadseq.jpg)
I started playing with making the change more of a transformation than an animation. The key was keeping the shapes and gestures very similar.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggIGUCd7Sa64PrstfhLOQpW6j2rNfKxQr7wQwgwUBCOfSWbOtOJyh-jD2Pg83o7fgGNrDNzDwy985pq1dhW2TnunUPdPfIANNup2rT3W8bW8O3kmiwYss8QYH4hzNx6Ni9gYtbaQoUrFA8/s320/benchseq.jpg)
More recently I've been attempting more ambitious compositions, and leaning toward more scifi and fantasy themes.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYAMQUFv6Zw-Shn9i8OGeTdPUOARZz9EQPKAzQNODxyA5VgnemkOJ0Br_3aKhsSAj94bnPu2fcVqfNovD0RqVXkR2RcNYzscIszuHuDtnHQ7Id5Unti_LsCKHjeAVRNfz55Kk_VhOKoanY/s320/dogseq.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntiLoJ_Gn1XoKIZLJ6XoV0inNAgBH_oVnJa6SXcDqXb491CetKmCUUlw9Bsyi93dN52OGdiaxp8IoOrCTONwse3d6CQPh7xlrgnutdM_CKEeLWW2FUBQMXYDgDQTo61Owyf9oEon1cEQT/s320/zomseq.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_axRXPA5PPpYmlgUivfwLee0S1Pdqns8-0Te__IQOGZtwNkTI32HZnWDv6CZBCcf4ppsbctgighaGABXuUJKIpMQGtZ_6lYPDDnuJUMHwJEd3ZLz78StqTm7ACyweDD2S4JP4JOGzVksj/s320/Barseq.jpg)
Check back for more soon.
Scott