Note that the links no longer work...

I thought of this considering the weather and that we are coming in on the homestretch of Christmas.

This was done about 3 years ago for a publishing/magazine company I worked for as a Christmas promotion.

The entire image is actually done with layers, textures and effects in Photoshop. (It actually works quite well as a freehand painting program...) The overlay is a simple Flash grid that presents the current date (still accurate) as a link to a specific offer for books or a contest.

The view is supposed to be from the inside of a hobby shop looking out onto the streets of Stockholm with the city hall in the background. (And a fox beneath a streetlight for reasons I can't recall.)

The most amusing part of making this was the snow, especially the footprints and the slight changes in color and texture.

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About 5 years ago I took a basic web design class. One of the things it involved was Flash. We were given various assignments to create different websites for different subjects. This one was for a fake movie site.

Flash has sort of taken on a different dimension since 2005, but it was amusing to dig this up and see one of the first things I ever did with it. Not exactly a masterpiece by any measurement, but it was fun to make.

I remember combing the interwebs looking for wolf and wind sound effects and even made a title song in GarageBand. Once in the pub you can click on the different elements and even watch the paltry trailer for The Tavern.

So, saved for all prosperity, one of Stockgnome's first forays into the dangerous world of Flash...

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