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This was the most ambitious Flash animation I completed while at ZOX. The CEO was travelling to England to meet with clients from Pitney Bowes and needed a short film that would explain the ZOX product in the context of the Pitney Bowes workspace. We chose to do a film that was modelled after the industrial movies of the 50's and 60's, using the ZOX Squad characters that were in our recruitment ads at the time. The result was a 10 minute piece that was completed, with voices in-sync with Scooby-Doo-style mouth movements and full atmospheric background noises, in 7 days. I didn't sleep much in those last three days, I assure you. The film was, obviously, pretty large in file size, but it was small enough to place on the hard drive of the CEO's laptop (whew!). I learned ALOT about file optimization, as well as how to get the most for the least Hannah Barbara-style in one's animations. At the moment, due to the file size I can only show the whole thing in person at this time (after all, it was never intended to be streamed).
Click on the image at left for the first few scenes from the movie (about 800K).