http://kierannolan.com Lecturer and Researcher at DkIT Section of Creative Media. Design & Interaction & Hacking & Netizen. Mon, 14 May 2012 22:58:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://kierannolan.com/2009/03/warangutan/ http://kierannolan.com/2009/03/warangutan/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:44:18 +0000 Kieran http://blog.keyo.net/?p=663 Continue reading →]]> Found these great flash cartoons on youtube, by animator Hiroshi Namiki. All feature this ape with a snot bubble hanging out of his nose, who mostly spends his time harassing a bulldog, which has similar nose hygiene issues. The use of sound adds to the surreal humor, particularly the canned laughter and applause. The same animator also has a series of short sixteen second pieces about a mischievous piece of sushi called Okapa-makiko. Anyhows, it’s exercise time with WarangUtan and company…

]]> http://kierannolan.com/2009/03/warangutan/feed/ 0 http://kierannolan.com/2007/09/benetton-flipbook-deluxe/ http://kierannolan.com/2007/09/benetton-flipbook-deluxe/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:17:24 +0000 Kieran http://blog.keyo.net/?p=182 Continue reading →]]> Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been using this great flipbook creator from benettonplay.com with a beginners animation class. It was developed by Fabrica, Bennetton’s R&D center. A clever feature of this little web app is that in addition to publishing your flipbook as part of an online gallery, you can also export it as a PDF, allowing you to print and out and get busy with your scissors and glue to construct a real, on-paper flipbook. Here’s one of the animations from the students, the whole ‘stickman meets a grizzly end’ theme was fairly popular!

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