Flashy Flash Flickr Fun

I had an assignment in my digital art class to create some sort of animation to go along with one of three 30 second audio clips the teacher gave us. As always, I wasn't too inspired so I did what any lazy artist does- reuse and recycle. Just last week, I was actually teaching a class on Flash and one of my examples to them was an imitation of the flickr animated gif for when something is loading. I reused it (over and over actually) in my latest assignment and am pretty happy with how things turned out.

Here's what I showed my class how to do:



If you want to see how simple it is you can flickr animation FLA. Now see if you can tell where I used it in my assignment:



I know it's not the most awesome animation in the world, but I don't even know if we're getting a grade on it. I was just amuzed/impressed I was able to reuse a simple animation and turn it into something more complex. I'm definitely showing my class how they should be taking my simple (stupid) class examples and turning them into cool things for their own projects!