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!