Flash animation works well with cartoon characters. This page animates a cartoon girl riding a bicyle towards the viewer. A scaling factor is applied to the cartoon girl so her size gets larger when she rides toward the screen.

The cartoon drawing takes only 12 animated frames. The image is originally designed at 480 by 90 pixels. If the image width and height are specified at this size, no scaling will occur.

The Linux-based ActionScripting engine behind this page generates the graphic file in industry standard Flash swf format that is supported by most modern browsers, and is compatible to all Flash player versions.

You can customize the display text, color of the text and the ribbon. You can also change the ribbon transparency setting and the bike speed. The movie may look shaky if setting the bike speed too fast.

The final Flash file is generated including appropriate HTML codes with just one click. You do not need to know Flash or program its scripting language. You do not have to use any traditional desktop Flash tools to create this effect.

The parameters are self-explanatory hopefully to most of us. If you do not understand its meaning, change its value and see how it affects the text animation.

1. Width of image   
(default 480 pixels)

2. Height of image   
(default 90 pixels)

3. Text vertical position   
(default 55 pixels)

4. Text horizontal position   
(default 50 pixels)

5. Enter your text to render
(up to 120 characters)


6. Font size   
(default 24 points, max 72 points)

7. Typeface: Burton's Nightmare

The following Flash image demonstrates this cartoon animation. The font used is the popular free movie font Burton's Nightmare.



Click to generate the Flash image file with your current choice of parameters in a separate window.

The generated Flash swf file will be automatically removed from the server in approximately one hour. Right click on the apppropriate link and choose "Save Link As..." or "Save Target As..." to download the Flash or HTML file to your computer.