A Whale of a Lot of Fun

[gwpriester]

I am always amazed at what people can do with Flash http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/a..._sprite198.swf

[pauland]

Nice.

I know how it's done - not as hard as you might imagine, but very effective.

[wizard509]

Very effective indeed. I wish I knew how it was done though.

[pauland]

The whale is a stack of shapes, one on top of another. The nose is at the top of the stack, the tail sections at the bottom.

The nose follows the mouse. Each shape underneath follows the movement of the shape above in the stack, but with a small delay. This causes the ripple and the movement of the shapes give the illusion of a body flexing.

Each seperate shape is playing follow the leader with the shape above it in the stack. The nose is playing follow the mouse.

It is very effective.

If you look closely you can even see that the tail fins are made up from separate sections - making the tail flexible.

[angelize]

This is the same one that Rik posted a few weeks ago http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...ows-your-mouse But yes it is very effective.

[pauland]

Aha!

Didn't see that one!