Animated Tutorial by Cecilia Elman

©  Cecilia Elman

This is (more or less) how I draw the head of my cartoon character, HyperTex the technological cowboy. The written procedure for this is on my Web site hypertex.bizland.com/tutorial.htm. This vector animated Gif is only 26KB. Everyone is falling all over themselves now because Flash can produce small vector animated files. Well, CorelXara (even when it was just plain "Xara") has been doing that for years.

This animated Gif is part of my series of cartoons on "HyperTex Looks at Europe." It's interesting how the Europeans stereotype Americans based on the movies. Obviously we do the same. Notice the paneling on the bar.

Animated German by Cecilia Elman

©  Cecilia Elman

Animated Spider by Cecilia ElmanThis is an animation I put on my first Intranet site (1998, how time flies!) I wanted to convince the employees to update anti-virus software and this graphic linked to the most recent update and ordering procedure.

The site also had basic PC Maintenance tips (using ScanDisk, deleting .tmp files, etc.) and the graphic link was the scanned head shot of a manager. I added a cartoon body pouring oil into a PC (maintenance, get it).

What made this animation rather unique was the manager complained I made him too fat.

I sliced off some of his stomach (with a Wacom tablet on the screen! Geez!) and every time he poured the oil it looked as if he was doing the hula. This website had a tremendous number of hits, even from employees who had no real interest in the content. (I don't have written permission from the manager to show his photo so I can't display it here.)

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Animated Interview by Cecilia Elman

©  Cecilia Elman

Here's another 9KB (count 'em, only 9 KB!) animated Gif. This is part of a series of cartoons I did to describe the Civil Service hiring process for a recruitment web. If you want to see the rest of the cartoons, Click Here.