{"id":131,"date":"2011-10-06T19:26:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/?p=131"},"modified":"2011-10-06T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:26:29","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now For Something Completely Different…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m not kidding about the name of my blog.\u00a0 When it comes to crafting, I have the attention span of a dog when a squirrel runs by.\u00a0 I was thinking about that the other day as my basket making obsession had been replaced with a fever to make lamp shades.\u00a0 More about that later.\u00a0 This got me thinking that it would be cool to have an animation of a squirrel dash across t\"\"<\/a>he top of my blog.\u00a0 Hence me spending yesterday learning to draw and animate in Adobe Flash.\u00a0 The animation is not working as the tutorials seem to suggest that it should.\u00a0 I don’t know if this is user error, or if I have my character set up differently.\u00a0 I guess I need to go back a step and see how they are creating their figures.\u00a0 Still, this guy is kinda cute for a 10 minute work up.\u00a0 (Yeah, 10 minutes to draw the figure, 6 hours trying to get it to animate.)\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 Thanks to Preston Blair for the guidelines on drawing the squirrel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’m not kidding about the name of my blog.\u00a0 When it comes to crafting, I have the attention span of a dog when a squirrel runs by.\u00a0 I was thinking about that the other day as my basket making obsession had been replaced with a fever to make lamp shades.\u00a0 More about that later.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2d","category-digital-graphics","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/author\/admin\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gp05-27","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2029,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/payoff\/","url_meta":{"origin":131,"position":0},"title":"Payoff","author":"Julie Stubbs","date":"July 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"So in my last weaving post, I teased the next yarn I was looking at using, but I am always bad about writing up my projects. 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