MakeSweet

A Valentine animation

Paul — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:19:29 +0000

Recently Nathan Salapat posted a Valentine animation on BlendSwap that showed a golden ring falling onto an open book, with the pages set up to show photos of a couple - and with the lighting set up to cast the shadow of a heart through the ring. A neat trick! We couldn’t resist setting up a generator for it.

Make your own falling ring animation or take a look at romantic designs from previous years.

happy holidays, buone feste!

Paul — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:08:15 +0000

Here’s our holiday round-up of fun scenes. Happy new year!

Sometimes things just click

Paul — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:01:29 +0000

We made this Rubik’s cube animation to show how people come together in the apparently haphazard puzzle of life. Enjoy!

Toasty cats

Paul — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:06:04 +0000

Cats pop up in the darnedest places!

People see all sorts of faces on their toast. What’s going to pop up on yours? Use our new popping toast generator to make an animation of two slices of toast showing whatever you imagine.

Flower Power Van

Paul — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:12:22 +0000

Latest design: a Volkswagen van, waiting for you to spray-paint it. If you’re looking for ideas, there is no shortage - unleash your inner hippy!

Green and gold

Paul — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:34:11 +0000

St. Patrick’s day is rolling around again, and we’re seeing people rediscover our Pot of Gold filler:

(Hmm, technically that should probably be “whom do you treasure” not “who do you treasure” - but, let’s face it, St. Patrick’s day is not reknowned for the quality of its grammar).

And there’s the ever-popular Chicago River dyer:

For those looking for bigger pictures, just remember to scroll down and click on “high resolution”.

If you’ve questions, or ideas for a new design, just pop over to Facebook and talk to us.

MakeSweet Love

Paul — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:34:02 +0000

There’s plenty on MakeSweet for Valentine’s day. Check out our Valentine’s animations, including a heart locket, a love-shower of hearts against the sun, a fluttering butterfly, a gift box of love balloons, and now a new addition: two flowers in a field, blossoming in the sun.

The Valentine Flowers design is a pair of flowers in a field, opening in the sun. What’s inside? You decide.

Wrap it up for the holidays

Paul — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:51:54 +0000

New design for the holidays: an animated gift box pops open, out tumble a bundle of heart balloons, two of which have your photos or messages on them. Too sappy? Hey, we’re called “MakeSweet” for a reason. Heart lockets, heart sunsets, you can never have too many hearts, in our opinion.

This design adds to our collections of festive or romantic designs. Enjoy!

Animated flags, with your choice of background (including none)

Paul — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:05:49 +0000

Our animated flag generator is a hit, and we like the background in it (the sky as seen from a very pleasant seaside town in Italy, of which we have fond memories). People sometimes ask for a different background, or a blank background. We’ve just updated a version of the generator that lets you do just that:

For your own background, add a picture using the “+” button as usual, and drag it from the flag onto the background. For a blank background, well, you don’t have to do anything at all. Click here to get started on your own flag!

Happy new year 2012!

Paul — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:37:06 +0000

It seems a bit early to us too, but we were asked for this, so here goes: happy new year 2012! Click to make your own version of this animation. What good things do you see coming in 2012?