How the LIFT animations were done

February 17, 2007 By

I love this! Much more fun than the last post.

In between the talks at LIFT there were some really great animations up on screen. I asked the graphic designer, cristiana bolli-freitas of the Bread and Butter mixed media agency, to explain how she did it. This video is what results.

I love that they started with a little smilie face on my blog (only shows up in some browsers) above that is put there by WordPress.com to help track traffic.

Look at what Cristiana did with that smile, though!

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  • http://dan100.blogspot.com/ Dan

    I love that they started with a little smilie face on my blog (only shows up in some browsers) above that is put there by WordPress.com to help track traffic.

    I was wondering what that was but was too afraid to ask :-)

  • http://dan100.blogspot.com Dan

    I love that they started with a little smilie face on my blog (only shows up in some browsers) above that is put there by WordPress.com to help track traffic.

    I was wondering what that was but was too afraid to ask :-)

  • http://blog.yuvisense.net Yuvi Panda

    I too was wondering what that was while I was scraping your blog. Mind if I ask you how you found out that the smilie was used for tracking? Just curious…

  • http://blog.yuvisense.net Yuvi

    I too was wondering what that was while I was scraping your blog. Mind if I ask you how you found out that the smilie was used for tracking? Just curious…

  • http://stevegarfield.com/ steve garfield

    Inspiring.

  • http://stevegarfield.com steve garfield

    Inspiring.

  • http://looocal.wordpress.com/ Sebastian Moser

    It’s easy to find out why the smily is used for stats – just right-click it, select “Properties” and see that the location of the image is “http://stats.wordpress.com/…”
    ;)

  • http://looocal.wordpress.com/ Sebastian Moser

    It’s easy to find out why the smily is used for stats – just right-click it, select “Properties” and see that the location of the image is “http://stats.wordpress.com/…”
    ;)

  • http://blog.yuvisense.net Yuvi Panda

    @Sebastian: Cool! I never thought of checkin the props. Quite an innovative way to collect stats I’d guess, and works even if JS is disabled….

    As they say, once a desktop developer, always a….

  • http://blog.yuvisense.net Yuvi

    @Sebastian: Cool! I never thought of checkin the props. Quite an innovative way to collect stats I’d guess, and works even if JS is disabled….

    As they say, once a desktop developer, always a….

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    #2: I asked Matt Mullenweg. :-)

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    #2: I asked Matt Mullenweg. :-)

  • http://photomatt.net/ Matt

    The smiley is our image tracker for the WordPress.com stats system. When we wrote it we decided it’d be nice to have something that spread a little joy tracking the stats than just a transparent gif.

  • http://photomatt.net/ Matt

    The smiley is our image tracker for the WordPress.com stats system. When we wrote it we decided it’d be nice to have something that spread a little joy tracking the stats than just a transparent gif.