Head with wings – Got the Jimmy Legs

Head with wings

I am hoping you are now seeing a bunch of animated heads on the title bar of the site. Yes, it's kind of annoying, but I am working out some options for the Flash sections. This little exercise forced me to use Adobe Premiere and After Effects. I need to put them all into Flash and make them a uniform animation yet, but for now I think it's kind of amusing, if only briefly.

The next step is to make the animation operate only when the user mouses over the images. This will use Actionscript, which I am not a big fan of, but since it's a pretty simple operation, I think I can stand it.

One other thing: despite the poweful tools at my disposal, like the mkv to mp4 converter described here, I ended up using good ol' VirtualDub for some of the video editing. What an awesome open-source program that is.

6 Comments

  1. sylvia
    Posted January 22, 2010 at 7:34 pm | Permalink

    you trippin'

  2. adam rousseau
    Posted January 23, 2010 at 9:05 pm | Permalink

    ok im not trying to say this in a mean way but the only reason i found ur site is bc my nickname is jimmy legs so i wana know what u mean by got the jimmy legs and i wana know if you are gay and y u love cats so much

  3. adam rousseau
    Posted January 23, 2010 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

    so email me asap cause i wana know and im not meaning this at all offensivly i just wana know

  4. Posted January 24, 2010 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    the site name comes from the Seinfeld episode "The Money" when Kramer says of his girlfriend (played by Sarah Silverman), "She's got the jimmy legs." i just liked it as a pen name, sounds better than my real name. Not gay but liking cats and heterosexuality are not mutually exclusive, i swear!

    I know jimmy legs are the leg ailment, but also has some kind of naval meaning. Plus it was the name of a gangster in Donnie Brasco 🙂 so why do they call you Jimmy Legs?

  5. adam rousseau
    Posted January 24, 2010 at 5:27 pm | Permalink

    thank you for answering me. i have no idea why they call me jimmy legs my friend brenen just called me it one day and i liked the name. i hope i didnt offend you with the gay question.

  6. Jason
    Posted February 1, 2010 at 10:43 pm | Permalink

    Regarding the animated heads – they are not annoying. I was thinking "remarkably creepy" myself.