silly walks generator
roll your own Silly Walk
concept, interaction designer, developer – mar 2006
A client approached me to build a promotional game for their release of a series of "Monty Python's Personal Best" DVDs. Rather than creating a traditional game, I thought it would be fun to enable users to create their own Silly Walks, based on the original Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.
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Users can choose from four different Flying Circus backgrounds and four different characters, including the Inquisitor, Lumberjack, Knight, and Mime.
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Drag limbs into position, then set a keyframe. Continue until your animation is complete. Tweak the Speed and Silliness sliders to fine-tune your animation.
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Completed Silly Walks can be sent to friends via unique URLs. This site was my first attempt at user-generated content, and in retrospect, it would be much better with a public gallery and voting system. My next project focusing on user authorship, Quickcomic, made much more of an effort to build community around the content.