Free animated gifs, Original 3D animations

New Free Christmas Animations available

2011-12-10T13:34:00.004Z

New Christmas animations are now available on our website.

This animated gif is just one example of many that have been added to our Christmas animations page

All our animations are original and have been made by Dave so you will be getting some of the best Christmas gifs on the internet.

Have fun with them and use them as you like except for adding them to other online collections.

Merry Christmas

Dot and Dave

Animated gifs for Google+

2011-09-05T20:33:00.007+01:00

We have found a new use for our animated gifs.

Google+

You can add them very easily to your posts and do not have to upload them to Picasa first.

On our website you will now find some join us on Google+ animations

These are little animations that you can add to your blogs or websites that invite your visitors to join you in this new project.
Of course we have a nice big selection of gif animations and they can all be used in your messages to your friends.

Gif animations for blogs

2011-07-08T06:59:00.004+01:00

All information regarding any new animations on our website can now be found on our home page There are a few animated gifs on this blog but we have a much bigger collection available on our site.

Animated Pandas

2011-06-16T19:05:00.003+01:00

Here we are, some panda animations, I love this one with panda singing in the rain. For once I will say well done Dave as I really love this new web page. Dave was telling me about Bloggers and how they like to follow each other, something I asked Dave not to include on this blog, not because I am unsociable but more because this is just an information update on the website that I like to do each week. I am not a computer addict like Dave and like to leave it at that. We hope to have some follow me and I will follow you animations next week. As some of you may know I do a lot of the text content on our website and try to think of different animations to make each week as well as keeping Dave fed and watered and I do have some more ideas in the pipeline for new animations.

Animated puzzles

2011-06-09T18:04:00.001+01:00

This week Dave has added the puzzles, about time as well. He made a panda especially for the Google Panda animations so he is now going to use that 3D model and make some more animated Pandas, we hope to see these next week. I must admit that I am a little concerned about him because he has been making some strange comments on the blogger help forum, maybe it has something to do with old age. I can confirm that it is nothing to do with me, although I occasionally use the nickname Acorn, most times it is Dave. We share just about everything except my clothes (I have not found him in them yet anyway)

The Google +1 button on our homepage got off to a shaky start but seems to have settled down now, click it if you like our stuff. Dave says he thinks it was a canonical problem. WTF that is I don’t know or really care just lets keep him making new animations.

Updates and modifications

2011-06-02T17:10:00.003+01:00

I don’t often moan at him but it has produced some results.
Dave has made some more gardening animations, created a new butterfly card as our sample here, made a new drum and pancake animation and added a lot more smiley face animations. Not bad for a weeks work, he sometimes gets a bee in his bonnet but he now thinks that he can laze about everywhere because he has been so productive. I’ll let him have a little rest; trouble is at his age he is liable to seize up if I do not keep him moving. God help me in seven months time, he retires and I will have to have him at home all the time.
We are not sure what it is all about but we have added a Google +1 button to our website. It is under the email link at the top of our home page If you like our content and have a Google account feel free to click it and recommend us to the world.

Panda update animation

2011-05-26T18:07:00.002+01:00

Now we know what Dave was up to. Our old friend the Panda update algorithm raises his ugly head once again.
Quite frankly I have heard enough about, we still enjoy making our little animations and handing them out free. If Google considers our website poor quality and demotes us in the ranking it is not our loss but yours.
I will write no more about it, I have only got on my soap box because Dave made this Panda animation.

Come on Dave, we want some decent animations now, update the gardening page or finish off those puzzles we were talking about earlier and lets get back into the swing of things again.

Animated rubbish bins

2011-05-19T18:07:00.002+01:00

This week we have made a couple more in the bin animations. We used the green bin that Dave made for the Mary Bale animations that has now become obsolete. Of course any one could be planted in these bins at any time. Dave is working on adding a couple more animations to the gardening page and hopefully we will see them next week. Strange thing is that I caught him making a Panda animation, not sure just what he is up to with that.

Because we are concentrating on adding more content to some of our “thin” pages the puzzle page has gone onto the back burner. When they do appear I think that they will be just a little different to our normal stuff.. Summer is coming and Dave tends to sit in the garden rather than making animations but I will do the best I can to keep him working.

Google or Bing

2011-05-15T08:36:00.004+01:00

Dave has used Google for years, he says that in the early days when Google first came out he set up the computers at work with Google as the default browser. He has changed all that now because we have found that Google are returning some very strange results. A lot of websites are getting multiple listings for one search term, we in fact get four listings on the first page for one search term and a lot of sites with copied content are outranking the original content site. So is it Google or Bing, we think Bing has come along in leaps and bounds and definitely use it more than Google. Watch out Google, Bing is increasing its share of the search engine market and when you drop clangers like this they must be jumping up and down in delight.
Of course we are not SEO experts, just ordinary people with a website as a hobby, but we do wonder how many people will agree with us. I had to get Dave to change the original animation, his bad language is terrible sometimes.

Last of the modifications

2011-05-12T18:32:00.000+01:00

We have updated as much as possible on our website now and after a thorough investigation have already added two more animations to the transport page.The kit car here was made by Dave years ago but he had not made a really good animation of it until now.

The Mary Bale page with the cat in the bin needs updating and we will add something different in the pop up bins The Gardening page looks a little sparse and an animated garden fork and spade would not go amiss.The Guy Fawkes page had an obscure and out of date remark about Gordon Brown on, that has been removed and we are not too sure what to do with the royal wedding animations now. Next week we will be back to normal with some new animations I hope

Self catering Larnaca

2011-05-06T17:52:00.001+01:00

We are still hard at work cleaning up our site, removing some of the bad pages and dead links and basically writing our memoirs. Hopefully by next week we may have some new animations. We have also fitted in a holiday to Cyprus, stayed at the Sea ‘n Lake view Holiday apartments in Mackenzie Bay Larnaca and were so very well looked after by a very friendly Greek family who owned it. We just had to add a review on our website about it called self catering Larnaca.
We are cursing Google for this new algorithm but it is making us tidy up and making things a little better for the visitor.

Panda algorithm on Google search

2011-05-01T21:09:00.002+01:00

No new animations this week but a major update is going on our website. The new Panda algorithm on Google search has hit our search results very badly. When you look at our site you see very little text content which the bots look for and they are not to know that our original animations sometimes take days to make and can be much better content than some articles. The Panda update has also affected Dave’s Flash blog; he is getting a lot more hits on that because of better text content. We have decided to add a lot of more text and make our website more like a blog. Between us we have a lot of information about the animations and a lot to say about the subject matter. It would be nice to see our site rating better in the search engine again; after all we are giving away animations and it is you out there who will not find us that are losing out. Don’t you agree?

Essential tremor awareness ribbons

2011-04-25T09:25:00.000+01:00

Poor old Dave suffers from Benign Essential tremor; he has had it for years now and has learnt to live with it. We have a page on our website with a link to some very helpful information and we were asked to make some sort of Awareness ribbon for it. Once again Dave has made some strange animations, bear in mind that on one visit to a specialist in hospital it was referred to as ET, the wrong thing to say to Dave with his vivid imagination. It is possible that next week we may add some puzzle animations but because new Panda search algorithms have hit us pretty badly we may be spending our spare time optimising the whole site a little better. With 400 pages that is a lot of work.

LOL animations ROFLMAO gifs

2011-04-16T09:19:00.002+01:00

A strange page indeed, has Dave gone crazy, no he could not get even crazier, he has made some unusual LOL animations that you can use on your forums and blog pages etc. I had to chuckle this week when a friend of our daughter sent a message from Facebook asking him to be her dad. We have already “adopted” her so I suppose it makes sense. Lets me honest, Dave has never grown up, probably like a lot of men and when I asked our grand daughter who her favourite “boy” was granddad came top of the list. They are partners in crime and I have to keep a careful eye on them. It makes me laugh when both of them sit down to watch “Granddad in my pocket” on children’s television. It just about sums up what my husband is all about and certainly explains some of the strange animations.

Google Panda Update affect images ?

2011-04-14T13:09:00.004+01:00

Over the past week we have had a considerable de ranking on Google search. An investigation reveals that Google have updated their algorithms in an attempt to give quality high content websites a better placement and called this new search update "Panda".

Some experts are saying that having many low quality back links will affect you. Other opinions are that having ads on your web pages can affect you as well. Google never give any official explanation of what and how they do these things. It would seem with us that although we have considerable unique content (everything in fact) the Google spider just see our animations and images as just another graphic and that our text content could be increased. If we make an animation and it is used on your blog or website it is nice to get some recognition for our work and a link back to our site is a nice thing to see.

I suspect that the Google Panda update does not see it that way and can only see what it considers to be low quality back links. Let it see it that way, we get visitors from these links when someone sees a good example of our work. Our intention was never to build back links for SEO purpose and we actually have thousands of them.

Dave wants to pull all ads from our site, he never liked them in the first place, but I say wait a little and see what happens, many thousands of good quality websites are in the same position and Google may sort out this problem. We are really not the losers, our website is not a business site and everything is free, the losers are the people that do find us on Google search.

Travel Animations Monarch Aircraft

2011-04-07T18:16:00.002+01:00

The jet aircraft is about to land. It’s a Monarch one as well; we use them on a regular basis. Last Easter we got stuck in Cyprus for an extra week because of the volcanic dust and although it was a long uphill struggle Monarch Airlines eventually compensated us for some of the extra expenses we incurred.

Most times we have found the aircrew to be very happy and entertaining although on occasions we have encountered the miserable one, but who can be happy all the time, not Dave, that’s for sure. This jet can be found on our new Travel animations page with a few other things as well.

Noob animations

2011-03-31T17:15:00.001+01:00

Not my idea this week. I would not have known what a NOOB was until Dave told me. These animations seem to be the result of Dave hanging around on the Blogger help forum and they do not seem to be that complimentary so I apologise on the behalf of Dave if they upset anybody. Remember he is getting on in years and seems easily influenced by anybody these days. I have been watching him build a jet airliner in the modelling program and it should become part of a set of travel animations next week

Animated politicians

2011-03-25T12:59:00.002Z

This week we have updated the faces page. Some of the old ones were pretty awful and I told Dave as such so he improved on them a little.

We also added some more relevant political faces and of course added the obligatory funny hat. I love this one of Tony Blair and although he has taken a lot of stick we have always been a supporter of him although we have no particular political leanings. The one we had of Gordon Brown was looking too young so we updated that as well and gave him a pirates hat.
It’s nice to see that spring has arrived and that the trees are starting to get green and flowers are appearing, it has been a hard and cold winter and we can do with some warm sun to warm our old bones.

Not sure what to come next week but one thing for sure we will have something new.

Happy Birthday animations

2011-03-17T19:08:00.003Z

This week Dave has actually made what I suggested last week. Some Birthday animations for special age groups. I particularly like the 70^TH birthday one.Dave’s Flash animation blogs seems to have come to a standstill. He made quite a few Flash animations and has been modifying them and putting one a week on the blog. Sadly he has now run out of Flash animations and will not have much time to make more because he is too busy making new gif animations. Let’s be honest, although animated gifs have been about for a long time they are still popular and also very easy to insert into a blog or webpage, unlike Flash that needs a little HTML knowledge. The ipads do not have the ability to show any Flash on websites so our gif animations come up trumps there as well. It has also come to my attention that Dave has been spending some time on the Blogger help forum, as long as he behaves himself it is fine with me but the problem is that he is getting old and developing some strange personality traits. Although we use the same “name” I rarely visit those places and my main interest is writing this blog and helping with typing and text content on our website. I like to think that some of the best animations were my idea although the Dr Who ones were Dave’s idea and they are not bad if you like that sort of thing. Next week Dave says the animations are his idea although the inspiration came from friends, what he means I do not know, so let’s just wait and see.

Password Protected animations

2011-03-10T17:32:00.002Z

A new page with Password protected animations, Dave’s idea of course, not that he has anything worth protecting. I noticed that a few of our recently deleted web pages were still indexed by Google so we made a custom error page and have also added a page of “404” animations. I noticed that the birthday page did not have many “actual” birthdays. i.e. 20, 30, 70, maybe Dave will make some soon. I wonder if it would be practical to make every birthday from 1 to 100, now that would keep Dave busy.

Hand made cards from Cyprus by Marios

2011-03-03T17:48:00.004Z

We finished out tidy up for now, you can always find room for improvements and we thought that the MySpace and flu jab page looked a little bare so we added a few more animations. We changed the theme of the MySpace page and made and added some animated buttons, we hope to add more soon.
Dave then made a Royal wedding countdown clock that he added to his blog. Our friend Marios in Cyprus, a very special young man and very good friend has made a lot of beautiful hand made cards and we have added a page to show off and hopefully sell some of his work. This page just shows what can be achieved when you think that all hope is lost and how perseverance and a lot of love can make the impossible possible

Sorry for any inconvenience animations

2011-02-24T18:13:00.003Z

How often have you heard that phrase ”sorry for any inconvenience” and “thank your for your patience” Some very annoying terms that we decided to make animations about. Every so often we have a little bit of a tidy up on our site and we have been going through every page checking it out and replacing templates where necessary. It is still going on and we have found one orphan page and quite a few spelling mistakes so far. Hopefully it makes for a better experience especially where navigation is concerned, some of our pages did not link back to the right home page. Sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience. Dot.

Royal Wedding animations

2011-02-17T18:13:00.001Z

Oh boy. Dave has been busy this week. I suggested some royal wedding animations and he has produced some, I especially like the one posted here.
He also made some animations to compliment his milkman’s blog. Years ago I used to help him on his milk round, up early, out in all weathers and sitting in an electric milk float that often ran out of electricity and had no doors on it. Why does the silly old bugger want to blog about that, he will be lucky to get one reader a day? I think he may just be rebelling a little as he is always making animations that I have suggested. Someone has to have some good ideas!

Confessions of a milkman

2011-02-10T17:59:00.002Z

I reckon Dave has gone barmy this week, not only has he made a Flash electric milk float but he has made a blog called confessions of a Milkman, for a start that is not an original title name but it will also be putting a strain on his not too good a memory to recall things that happened to him in his twenties. Probably like a lot of things in his life he will enthuse about this blog for a few weeks and then forget about it. Mind you I must be thankful that his doing these things will keep him out of the pub. If his brother Ted lived close by I reckon they would both live in the local brewery.Now for some sanity of sorts, we have some No Parking animations and one look at the monkey will see the inspiration for these, sorry if you consider the monkey rude but the interpretation is in the eye of the beholder

Animated birds and buy now animations

2011-02-03T17:47:00.003Z

OK... so Dave eventually made the Buy now buttons for your online shops. We try to cater for everyone here. At the weekend we had some fun trying to capture an animation of a robin that visits our bird table on a regular basis. We have added our efforts to the animated birds page. We will try to make more of these. Dave has quite a few different projects on the go so we are not sure what is in store next week, once again it all depends on Dave. I have suggested some animations for the oncoming royal wedding and Dave is thinking about making some milkman animations ( He used to be a Milky). These could possibly turn up in a few weeks time but unfortunately I have very little control over what Dave does.

Animated photos

2011-01-27T17:32:00.003Z

Yes I thought as much, Dave has not finished the “buy now animations” but has been working in conjunction with a fellow blogger called Drachma to create some rather unusual animations. I have posted the Mountain View here, a photo taken by Drachma but animated by Dave. He has also modified a clownfish flash animation and made an Indian animation as well. I have seen a shopping trolley being animated so we should see the buy now animations next week. God help him if he does not come up with the goods this time. Pleased to say that Dave seems to be bouncing along and looks very fit after a few health scares a couple of months ago. He says it may be something to do with all the vegetables and fruit I keep feeding him.

Animated link buttons

2011-01-19T20:28:00.002Z

Dave does all the technical stuff and I just write this blog. He even persuaded me to give some publicity to the Creative Blog Gallery No 3 from here but as I agree with the idea that was fine. As long as I can let people know what is happening on Sevenoaks Art this blog can promote baked beans as well ( Dave’s favourites beans are Branson’s and the favourite food for his lunchbox is cold cheese omelette sandwiches ). Dave sometimes visits the Blogger forum and noticed that someone wanted to create a link back animated button so he has made some with a blank space to insert the name of the blog or website. You will need animation editing software like Jasc Animation Shop or similar to do so. We should have some “Buy now” animations for your merchant websites next week If Dave keeps on track but as we all know just about anything is possible where he is concerned

Animated Swords

2011-01-13T18:13:00.001Z

The creative blog gallery seems to be picking up momentum and has quite a few visitors already, of course Dave had to get in and stick one of his fish tanks in. He made them years ago and I know he could improve on them but apart from mucking about on his Flash animation blog he concentrates more on making new animated gifs. I tell him too, they are much easier to put into blogs and websites and I cannot be bothered with all that complicated stuff like embedding, linking and finding a server to host them. This week we have added some animations that were requested possibly a year ago, Dave does get round to these things eventually but I must admit I did not encourage him with this one. It is a new page with animated swords???

Creative Blogs showcase gallery

2011-01-07T17:41:00.013Z

A new blog has opened and it will be a gallery for the many creative blogs that do not get the publicity they deserve. It is called Gallery No 3, a creative blogs showcase. It is well worth a visit and I feel that this creative blogs showcase will become an important outlet for a lot of artistic content . It is an opportunity for any artistic or creative blogs to get better exposure on the internet and for blog owners to communicate with each other better.

Free Bollywood animated gifs

2011-01-06T18:17:00.004Z

We get many Indian visitors and have added a Diwali and Indian Symbols web page in appreciation and this has not put you off. Dave has gone one step further and now added some Bollywood animations that you can use on your blogs and websites. These are are symbols that can be used as headers to liven up your webpage. We are pleased with some of the updates we have done and it seems you are as well as we are getting an increase in page views from each vistor. It makes it all worth while especially when we see our work on other blogs and webpages

Happy New Year Animations

2010-12-30T11:57:00.004Z

While Dave knocks back the Southern Comfort and spends time chatting on the forums I have been updating the website with the updated animations he made. Some are brand new animations but many are an improved version of what we already had. We will not just put any old rubbish on our site just to make the collection bigger but believe in improving a lot of the animations we have already made. Quality and not Quantity is our motto. I have updated the perfume bottle, ipods, the Tardis, Golf, Weather, Lockets, Marry me, Televisions and Big Brother is watching and have generally tidied up a lot more pages as well including adding our photo to the Dot and Dave page. It is a nice way to finish of the year ready for a nice clean start to 2011.
Happy New Year Everyone and visit Our Happy New Year animations page for that special animation.

Be happy animations

2010-12-23T12:02:00.004Z

Christmas is just around the corner so be happy.
Dave has made some happy animated gifs and was not too keen to do so the miserable old sod. At least I am happy and got the inspiration to urge Dave to make these animations from our “Big Mouth Billy Bass” that Molly our grand daughter loves.The enormous amounts of snow that we have had has allowed the two of us to update and make a few more animations than we normally do but over the next couple of weeks we will not do a lot although the website will still be updated with new animations each week because we have a few already made ready to be uploaded. A rather strange addition has been added to the vegetables, no accounting for Daves strange sense of humour.
Merry Christmas to all from Dot

Christmas Animations

2010-12-16T17:51:00.003Z

Dave has been busy this week and has added some different credit card animations and has updated a few other pages. The diamond ring looked a bit tatty on the jewellery page so we added a better one.
The Drum, Tiger and Do not drink and Drive pages have also been updated.
Christmas is just around the corner and we have a good selection of Christmas animations You will like our naughty santa ones

Christmas Card

2010-12-15T20:08:00.003Z

We liked the photo so much we decided to make a Christmas card from it.

Click this link to see it.

Merry Christmas from Dot

Cool animations in the snow

2010-12-09T18:21:00.003Z

This week we have added some cool animations. Probably about right with all the snow we had last week. We were unable to get our car out of our road for 4 days but it was possible to walk up to the village and get some supplies.Dave is due to retire next year and reckons he just might get a four wheel drive mini, something economical but able to cope with the adverse weather conditions we seem to be getting lately. We a Golf GTI at the moment, a great car but not the best for snowy conditions.The picture shows the snow mushrooms in our garden

Boris for Prime Minister

2010-12-05T16:26:00.001Z

Boris has been in the news lately.
Don't you just like what he has to say.

Animated fire, candle flames

2010-12-02T10:36:00.002Z

We have been snowed in this week and with the possibility of power cuts decided to get the candles ready. This gave Dave an idea, he had experimented trying to make candle flames in the software he has but it had not worked that well so he tried taking videos of burning candles, editing them to repeat nicely and then converting into animated gifs. I think that these animated candles work quite well and it also opens the gates for animations that are based on photos rather than constructing in CAD software.

Animated please donate buttons

2010-11-26T09:48:00.003Z

Almost back to normal now with Dave.
We have now added the please donate buttons to our website. We are not looking for donations but these can be used on websites and blogs that do.
Christmas is approaching and it is a fun time for us with our little grand daughter and we seem to get a few more visits because of our Christmas animations.
I particularly like the Christmas Flash animations on Dave’s blog; he made them some time ago for “Wallop” but has found a way for them to be used on blogs

Maidstone Hospital

2010-11-20T08:51:00.004Z

We will not be adding any many animations this week because Dave has been in Maidstone Hospital again. He had another pulmonary embolism but because he was aware of the symptoms got early treatment and is now back at home generally making a nuisance of himself. He will need a few weeks off from work so a few more animations will probably be added soon. Dave is a very laid back person but also fiercely independent. I had to pity the hospital staff at Maidstone who tried to keep him in bed for the first couple of days.

Funny Animations

2010-11-11T20:05:00.005Z

As I was writing the last posting Dave was constructing a new webpage listing what he considered to be some of our funniest animations. The earlist ones were the toilet animations, Dave only had a few animations on the website and because he won an award for one of the toilets it gave him the inspiration to make more and you can just see how many he has made now. If you like our funny animations click the link.

Happy thanksgiving animations

2010-11-11T17:50:00.004Z

Last week we got an email asking why we had no Happy Thanksgiving animations. Dave immediately put the donate buttons on the back burner and knocked up a few Thanksgiving animated gifs.
At the moment we are having no problem finding new animations to make each week as the occasional good suggestion is emailed to us.
We have added the Christmas Header with Santa “sitting” on the Chimney to our main website. We use this animation every year and still get complaints that it is unsuitable. Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier every year so we jumped on the band wagon as well.

How to download animated gifs

2010-11-07T12:04:00.003Z

Just lately we have had a few enquiries asking about downloading animated gifs.
On our web site we do not allow direct linking (Hotlinking) so it is not possible to copy the animation and then paste it into your blog or website. We would love to be able to allow this facility but an animation site uses a massive amount of bandwidth (which costs us) just to display our work so allowing you to display animations by linking to our server would cost us more.
There is a correct procedure which has been outlined on our how to download animated gifs web page. Continue to have fun and enjoy our free original animated gifs, hopefully as much as we enjoy making them.

Dot and Dave
Sevenoaks Art

QR code animations

2010-11-04T18:01:00.003Z

This week sees the completion of the QR code animations.
A simple idea from Dave because he is simple. Can anyone see any possible use for them?
We like to look around other free gif animation web sites and have noticed some who put a donate button on their pages.
Sevenoaks Art has no intention of doing that but we are going to make some animated donate buttons that could be used on websites that work for charities, supply a free service or need help to keep running.
The blog award page has been updated.

Animated Zodiac signs

2010-10-28T17:37:00.009+01:00

The old boy has been busy this week, sometimes he gets a bee in his bonnet and will experiment. The YouTube videos are evidence of that. He has finished the animated Zodiac signs after I did all the research for him and the different colour light reflecting from them looks very good.The QR code animations (What a strange idea) should be available next week.

On the left you have the Capricorn sign (Dave) and on the right is my Gemini zodiac birth sign

How to Upload animated gifs to YouTube

2010-10-27T21:05:00.007+01:00

Dave cannot resist the temptation to experiment and once he found out how is easy it is to upload videos to YouTube he wondered if it was possible with our animated gifs. This is his first attempt and it was made in the Windows Movie Maker that is installed on most Windows computers.
The animated gifs do not work very well if they have a transparent background so some manipulation was needed to make a "solid" background and the image size needed to be 320 x 240 or a size in proportion. When saving to my computer in the save movie wizard, high Quality video was selected as the save setting.The text and fade effects were all added with Windows Movie maker as well. It will be interesting to see if Dave progresses with this experiment or loses interest as he so often does.

Animated sandals and flip flops

2010-10-21T17:34:00.003+01:00

This week Dave was busy making the Chile miners animation and has added a sandal (Not a Flip Flop) to the Flip Flop Dot page.
We have been busy updating things as the previous posting shows. At the moment Dave is working on two things, Zodiac sign and QR code animations so one or the other should appear next week.

Dot and Dave

2010-10-20T12:04:00.003+01:00

We have moved our broadband supply from Namesco to BT.
One of the good things is that we can ring our friends in Cyprus for less than 3p per minute with a broadband phone. We also get a faster download speed and very good Wi-Fi for the laptop and iphone. The sad thing is that we lose a webpage that was hosted by Namesco about Dot and Dave. I love the animated fish header that was the header on the old page so got Dave to move it with all information to our website. If you are interested in Dot and Dave. And believe me Dave is a boring old fart, Information can be found on the link below.

The wonderful world of Dot and Dave

Chile mine rescue capsule animation

2010-10-16T09:54:00.001+01:00

Dave has now added an animated gif to celebrate the rescue of the Chilean miners from San Jose Mine. This animation is one of them.

Another can be found by clicking the link below

San Jose mine rescue capsule

Male female symbols

2010-10-15T17:26:00.001+01:00

Life is back to normal, well as normal as is possible living with Dave.
Even as a young man his mother said that “he was not all there”. Who in his right mind would make hundreds of animations and then give them away. He has coerced me to join him in this venture; I must love the old git because when he looks at me with his big doggy brown eyes it is hard to refuse him anything. Anyway on to more important things.
The male female symbols have been made and at this moment in time Dave is working on an animation to celebrate the 33 Chilean miners amazing escape from their underground dungeon. We are hoping to publish this soon.

Animated pirates chest

2010-10-10T08:49:00.003+01:00

Well done Dave, we now have the sea chest with a nasty surprise in it.
We have had a week in Cyprus, enjoyed some sunshine, Ouzo , good Greek company and became good friends with John and Mary from Ashington so Dave has not been hard at work on any animations but for once had an idea himself. Expect to see some animated Male and female symbols next week.

Animated Pirates

2010-09-30T17:45:00.003+01:00

Ooo Arr Jim Lad, we have made the first batch of pirate animations and a new page has been added. We hope to add more animations next week including a sea chest. Dave is not spending so much time sitting in the garden sipping his Southern Comfort because Summertime is over so he will be spending a little more time creating some good animations (We hope). In just over a year’s time he will retire so just maybe our website will get a little more attention. I am seriously considering getting a job then and he can look after Molly our grand daughter while our daughter works. It is going to drive me mad having him home all the time.

Monarch Airlines settle Volcanic Ash claim

2010-09-24T18:54:00.003+01:00

Five months after we were stuck in Cyprus because of the Volcanic ash and had to pay for food and accomodation Monarch Airlines has settled our claim. It looks like they have settled with most people in a similar fashion. We got an allowance of £112 for two people for 7 nights half board accomodation, not easy to find such cheap accomodation in Cyprus but possible (we paid a lot more). £168 was allowed for food. As we were self catering a lot of the time this was about right. If Dave had got his finger out we may have have got this settlement earlier. We use Monarch Airlines a lot and are very happy with them. As they say "this disruption was beyond their control" so we say any reimbursement is a bonus after an extra week in the Cyprus sun.

Please leave a comment animations

2010-09-23T18:06:00.002+01:00

Dave has made some “please leave a comment” animations, probably best for blogs, as a lot of our work is. We were asked for some more spinning words and they have been added.
Our grand daughter Molly is five this week and my daughter is arranging a big party for her at the local village hall. The theme is Princess’s and Pirates.
The invitations have gone out in small plastic bottle with a “treasure map” invite inside carefully rolled inside a ribbon to be pulled out easily. Pirates are popular and we have nothing on our website about them. Watch this space next week.

Animated arrow gifs

2010-09-16T18:09:00.001+01:00

This week we were informed that our Flash header did not look the same in some browsers as it did in Explorer. We have tried it in several browsers and it seems OK now. The animations always seem to display OK which is good. Dave has added some animated arrows to our ever growing collection of gifs, you never know when someone would like to point something out :0)...... Sometimes people would like to encourage readers to their blogs to leave a comment, next week we hope to do something about this as Dave is working on some animations for this

Animated Gay Symbols

2010-09-09T18:41:00.004+01:00

Good ol Dave, the gay symbol animations have worked quite well.
If nothing else we are creating a wide range of different animations.
As this website is only a hobby and we work on it in our spare time we do not always update pages as necessary.
The Chinese Zodiac calculator is a classic example. When we looked at last weekend we noticed that the latest birth date on it was 2008. This has now been corrected and we have also made all birth sign animations available as animated gifs with no necessity to download zip files as before. It is also possible to link to or download our little calculator. Dave's Chinese Zodiac sign is a dog and I'm a snake, wonder if they are supposed to be compatible.

Monarch airlines reimbursement for volcanic ash problems

2010-09-07T19:17:00.006+01:00

Sometimes Dave is just too bl**dy laid back.

In April we wrote about being stuck in Cyprus for an extra week because of volcanic ash and how Monarch airlines promised to reimburse us for expenses incurred because of this. We made a claim in April and then again in May because the first one had not used their official six page claim form. I guessed this claim would not be settled immediately but over the months asked Dave to contact them and see what was happening. He eventually emailed them this weekend. Guess what , they say that they never received the claim form. Maybe I am cynical but I do have to wonder how often this has happened. Yes it was our fault for not keeping on top of it all and checking to see if the claim was received but a new claim has been made and acknowledged so we live in hope that we may get some reimbursement.When is another matter. All this is sad because we love Monarch and use them a lot , always get extra leg room (at a cost) and find the air crew some of the best around. Rarely do we get a last minute reschedule or a late flight and have even opted for reimbursement in the form of a Monarch flight voucher.

Bin cat lady animations

2010-09-02T19:23:00.002+01:00

We have added an addition to the cat bin women animation and we have it on display here. If you want to modify any animations or make your own name tags etc we have updated the tuition pages and if you want to use animation shop it is available here. We have a few gay friends and it has been suggested that we make some animated gay symbols... Dave is on the case and admits the rainbow effect is an excuse to make some very colourful gifs.

Pakistan Cricket Scandal animation

2010-08-30T13:54:00.003+01:00

Just what is going on in the cricket world and with sport in general.
Many years ago when Dot and Dave were youngsters sport had a healthy attitude and money did not come into the equation as much as it does these days. Professional footballers now take acting lessons on how to fool the ref. I thought rugby and cricket still had a healthy sporty attitude but the latest cricket scandal involving Pakistan makes me wonder.
Daves new animation sums it up

Mary Bale, where are you hiding

2010-08-28T16:25:00.007+01:00

Mary Bale Animation

With so much media attention Mary Bale the woman famous for dumping a cat into a wheelie bin and caught doing so on CCTV, has gone into hiding.
We have found her hiding place and have no hesitation in letting the public know where she is.
Lola the cat who spent 15 hours trapped in one of these bins seems none the worse for her ordeal and seems to be enjoying all the media attention she is getting.

Warning Animations, animated gifs

2010-08-27T17:01:00.002+01:00

Dave has made the warning animations, men at work or whatever you want to call these animations.
The box shown here is quite funny but the people inside must be double jointed.
While my daughter works I look after our granddaughter Molly. One day this week I left her in the bathroom while I worked downstairs and to my horror water started pouring through the light fitting in the kitchen. She had emptied a lot of water from the bath onto the floor and it had found its way downstairs.
Dave had to drill a hole in the ceiling to drain it all away. Not bad for a four year old

Adsense help animations

2010-08-20T17:40:00.002+01:00

This week Dave has added some Adsense animations to the Adsense help page, there are many hundreds of sites giving advice on Adsense so someone may have a use for them. I have suggested that Dave makes some safety “warning” animations like wear your ear protectors or something like that. The look he gave me makes me think that will be a no-go. We will just have to see what appears next week.

Make your own animated butterfly card

2010-08-12T19:06:00.005+01:00

This week Dave has made another animation that you can modify.
With a little photo editing and html knowledge you can make a card of your choice with an animated butterfly on it.
Poor old Dave this week he had to buy me a new washing machine and a new television as both had broken beyond repair.
Mind you he has never minded spending money and when I first knew him he was up to his eyeballs in debt, it took a long time , many arguments and a lot of patience for me to convince that it is not a good idea to spend your money as fast as you get it.

BT Broadband review

2010-08-07T15:45:00.003+01:00

Dot and Dave are an old couple and tend to be very fixed in their way at times (Thats us)
For years we used the same ISP for our broadband and just recently decided to change to BT.
At the moment things are looking very good and we are well pleased but it has not been an easy migration as Dave's BT broadband review page on our website shows.
Now that I have shown Dave it can pay to shop around maybe I can persuade him to use a different insurance company, petrol garage, recovery service, clothes shop (He lives in jeans and T shirts) and goodness knows what. The list is endless.
I dread the day he retires as well (18 months to go) because although I love the old sod he can be very annoying especially as he is so happy first thing in the mornings.

Dot

How to upload animations to Blogger

2010-08-06T13:48:00.009+01:00

Image size used 400 x 300

This week Dave has made access to all the swf files on the Flash website available through this updated Google site that we have had for a few years and not used that much. This gives you the option to download the animation and use it on your own server rather than using the links to our Photobucket account. Advice on uploading flash animations here.

He has also created a page giving advice on how to upload animations to Blogger (gifs), you cannot upload animated gifs directly from your computer but have to upload them to a photo hosting website first. Dave uses Picasa and gives advice on this web page.

New Beach Holiday Park

2010-07-31T10:56:00.003+01:00

Dave had a break from animation work last week.
Instead he spent a week with myself, our daughter and grand daughter at New Beach holiday park Dymchurch. We were regular visitors there in the early days of our marriage and one year our daughter won a weekly miss princess competition and her photo was entered the the miss princess of the year. She won that and we got a weeks free holiday so we have happy memories of the place.
We stayed in a caravan, it was brand new but these days they have managed to squeeze even more onto the site and in our opinion the chalets that were there 25 years ago are now looking tired and in need of some TLC. That said our grand daughter thought she was in heaven, she used the indoor swimming pool, the pedal go-karts to ride around the site, spent a good few pennies on the vast selection of arcade machines and thoroughly enjoyed the evening entertainment. The kiddies rep did let us down when several children wanted to go to a mornings painting session and because of bad organisation all the children missed out completely. There is something to be said for packing up your car with a weeks supplies and in less than an hour being at your holiday resort, sadly you cannot guarantee the British weather, but we were lucky.
An enjoyable day out is a trip on the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway, the worlds smallest public railway and still using steam trains, we travelled from Dymchurch to Dungeness and thoroughly enjoyed it. Our Granddaughter left one of her toys in one of the carriages but a telephone call to them on returning home saw the delivery of it by post the next day. Absolutely brilliant!

Animated chairs made from Sketchup models

2010-07-23T18:11:00.005+01:00

This week we have some animated chairs. Some of these were models that Dave made for sketchup and has made into animations.He has also added an ipad to his sketchup models.We are migrating our broadband from our present supplier to BT. It is not going smoothly but I believe Dave is to blame for muddling up the Mac code. BT are very helpfull and Dave is not too concerned as long as he has someone supplying his broadband

Google animations

2010-07-16T16:57:00.003+01:00

This week Dave has added a few more Flash animations to his new Flash blog.
We also have added some Google animations. Animations that relate to Google in some way.
We already had some made and Dave added a few more using the Animated alphabets available on our site. The teddy bear "Google me" is an example of one of our alphabets.

Holiday time is fast approaching and we have not booked anything yet. We may even end up having a week in Dymchurch if the weather is good, if not it gives Dave a good chance of doing a bit of decorating, our house is starting to look very tatty.

Flash animations for Blogs

2010-07-08T18:01:00.014+01:00

Flash Animations

Dave has been busy this week... well sort of. A few years back he made some Flash animations when he was a modder with Wallop, a social engineering site. Wallop no longer exists but Dave still has a few Flash animations that he can optimise and is adding to a new blog.
He says that at this stage it is a big experiment and wants to keep all Flash separate from Sevenoaks Art. Without a doubt there is some nice work and the animations are more complex than our animated gifs

Animated wasps

2010-07-01T17:46:00.003+01:00

Whatever next, Dave has for some strange reason decided to make a few wasp animations.They have been added to our insect pages.
We have also deleted some of the England flags and emblems on the World Cup football page.Bring back the days when Stanley Mathews played and football was not big business.
We still have not been reimbursed by Monarch Airlines for our out of pocket expenses when we were stranded in Cyprus for an extra week because of volcanic ash.It will be a matter of wait and see, I would not be suprised if we get another letter finding fault with our claim and asking for more information.

Make your own name tags

2010-06-25T18:03:00.003+01:00

Such a lot of our stuff can be modified. Dave has written a page about using one of our clownfish animations and making name tags from it.
If any of you use animation programs modifying out work is very easy and we do not mind you doing it.
If we get any interest in this sort of thing its possible Dave may come up with other animation modifications.
The sun is shining and we are in for a heatwave this weekend so the barbeque will be coming out together with Dave’s tatty shorts and T shirt.

World cup football animations

2010-06-18T18:46:00.005+01:00

This week we have updated the World cup football animations. Added a few more gifs and removed others. We are not keen football fans and the only football that ever really interested us was when our son was younger and played it.
We used to travel miles to watch him play.

Sometimes we like to participate in some of the forums available; some can be very aggressive with insults flying about everywhere. We give that sort a miss now but one animation forum we have been a member of for years is ABPAG4 It has moved location several times but is still a very nice place to visit.We highly recommend it.

Flip flop dot's designer flip flops

2010-06-10T19:01:00.002+01:00

Summer is here, we always notice that we get fewer visitors at this time of year and it makes sense. People are going to be out and about enjoying the sun and not at home sitting on their computers.
Dave has had his little bit of fun this week taking the pee out of me because I always wear flip flops. Problem is that certain people seem to pick up keywords like designer flip flops and we are already getting enquiries as to how much they cost. What will be next on the animation agenda? Could be anything next week, Dave is working on several projects and as some will know he does much of his work at weekends. This weekend he is going to a party at his brothers house in Hastings, when those two get together the drinks flow freely so I have a feeling that very little animation work will be done.

Ipad animations

2010-06-04T17:51:00.005+01:00

This week Dave made some ipad animations, or we should say animated ipads.We like to try and keep up to date with modern technology and as the ipad has just hit the UK why shouldn’t we make such animations. Remember any of our animations can be used on an ipad.
After some time we got a reply from Monarch about being reimbursed for the extra expenses we had because of an extra weeks stay in Cyprus because of the volcanic ash. We now have to fill out a seven page claim form. We had to pay for extra accommodation and food. We cannot claim for Alcoholic drinks, snacks, ice creams, deserts or any item other than those that could be considered reasonable subsistence. Maybe we should have been on a bread and water diet for that time. Dave considers every item on that list reasonable subsistence when on holiday in Cyprus.

If you do not see much in the way of animations next week it will be because we are spending all our time sorting out this form. If you are wondering about the spoof flip flop ad on our home page, its Dave’s warped sense of humour because I love flip flops and wear them all year round,
Enjoy the new ipad animations
Flip Flop Dot

Spoof Advertisements, animated spoof banner ads

2010-05-27T17:10:00.000+01:00

I let Dave have a free hand this week and he made some spoof advertisements.
These ads show how our work can be used as most of our animations are “free standing” with no background so if you have a little computer graphic experience making banners or little personal animations are easy. I know that some of the girls on the Paint Shop Pro forums have made some brilliant sigs with his work.
OK so the idea is good, but will any of you want to use these banners, after all there is no revenue for clicking on them and although Dave finds them funny his sense of humour is strange and he would laugh to see a pudding crawl.
Spoof ads are not a new thing and Dave got the idea from the Passing Clouds Holiday Homes blog that got the gold award from us last week.
Barbeque season is now here, and we have found a supplier of Sheftalia, a Cypriot sausage made with plenty of fresh onion and spice that we absolutely love.
Will they be up to the standard of the ones we get in Nicosia; we will let you know next week.

Animated Follow me on twitter buttons

2010-05-20T20:33:00.006+01:00

This week Dave has added some animated follow me on twitter buttons .
They are sort of sweet if not a little strange but they could work as a twitter button link on your blogs or websites. We have found another website that made us laugh; information is on the favourite blogs page.
At the moment Dave is quite happy, he has been taken of the medication he was on and it allows him to have a little more of the Southern Comfort he so favours.
Problem is that with the sunshine we are now getting it will be a hard job to keep him from lazing about in the garden instead of updating our website; at least he still has a few projects on the drawing board.

Our favourite blog

2010-05-13T20:37:00.004+01:00

This week Dave found a blog that really makes him laugh so I had a look also. This blog is written by someone who obviously has a lot in common with Dave, even down to his anxieties, thoughts on a spiritual world and a terrible fear of dentists.
It is called www.sobloggy.com. Our favourite blog is well worth a visit

Dave is still mucking about with his Sketchup 3D models and over the past few weeks and has been asked for a few more animated words. These have been added. He has been cheeky and added a Brown Clown animation to the political page. He will get into serious trouble one day but he says he is too old too worry. Dave has not made many morphing animations and I love the effect especially when a 3D model is used like the face animations on our no smoking page.

Page loading animations

2010-05-07T18:00:00.001+01:00

This week Dave has made some preloading or page loading animations. He sometimes makes Flash animations and a preloader is always handy.
We have also been looking at some of the Sketchup models we have made and we think we may be able to make some animations from them.
On looking around at some of our bigger rival sites we notice that many are using some of our animations, we always make sure we get credit and a link for using them but we are very proud that we do not use any other website’s animations on Sevenoaks Art.
We must be an exception with our animations because everything has been made by Dave over the past ten years.
Our website is truly full of original and good quality content, sadly lacking in many other animated gif websites.

Self catering Larnaca

2010-05-02T12:05:00.006+01:00

Unusual for us to post twice a week but we have just finished two extra pages.
John Cross contacted Dave about his times at Hyders Plaxtol in the sixties so we copied and pasted his comments into a new page. Plaxtol in the sixties
We originally had a page about self catering apartments in Larnaca but felt that the comments were outdated so removed it.
Since then we have stayed in the Dhekelia area of Larnaca in several self catering apartments so reintroduced it with our latest findings. Self catering Larnaca
It’s a rainy bank holiday so we have found time to do these modifications and watch the grass grow even higher in our garden.

Scottish Logos and Symbols

2010-04-30T16:28:00.000+01:00

Dave has now finished the Scottish symbols and animations.
We have settled down nicely after our break in Cyprus and have decided to try and find a Cypriot barbeque.
The nearest we can find is a barbeque that featured in Dragon’s Den and is called a Barbescew.
Electrical rotating scewers that ensure a good even cooked culinary delight.

Sometimes Dave makes Flash animations (ie our header) and he has said that he will make some 3D page loading gif animations.
Should be on our website next week.

Will Monarch Airlines reimburse us

2010-04-25T07:57:00.009+01:00

Sorry for no entry last week, we were supposed to have arrived home from Cyprus on Saturday and posted on Sunday but thanks to the volcanic dust we were stranded in Cyprus for another week and only got a flight back to the UK yesterday.
We enjoyed the extra week but not the extra expense so it will be interesting to see if Monarch Airlines will reimburse us for the accommodation and food as we only bought a flight. According to EU rules we should get reinbursement for sensible claims. UPDATE ON OUR SITUATION - CLICK HERE
We had one week in Nicosia with our friends Petros, Toulla and Marios and ended up having two weeks in Larnaca in a very modern apartment complex called Troy Legends where we met Kieros and Sharon with sons Zac and Leo. They have now become very good friends and as they intend to build a house in Cyprus we will make a point of visiting them.
Our routine has thrown off course and as Dave is getting old, bless him, it will take a little time for him to settle down again, but with gentle persuasion from myself we may see the Scottish animations next week. We now have a backlog of emails to look at.

Wot no animations

2010-04-09T12:10:00.000+01:00

This week Dave has no animations ready for our website.
He has been spending too much time on an alternative blog to this one and has even used my template.
He has written about our times in Cyprus, we are regular vistors and love anything Greek.
The photo shows myself and one of our neighbours when we stayed in Polemi.
Its up to you to decide which one I am.
Hopefully Dave will have finished the Scottish animations by next week.

Welsh emblems

2010-04-02T09:34:00.004+01:00

This week Dave has added some Welsh animations. He will probably get around to adding a Welsh harp at some stage. The Scottish animations are still on the go. After a hard bitter winter with more snow than we would like to have seen (It made Dave build some animated snowmen) it is nice to see some spring flowers blooming. The snowdrops and daffodils are now springing up everywhere.
We are approaching that time of the year where Dave likes to sit in the garden sipping his Southern comfort rather than making animations. Fortunately in the UK we get a fair amount of rain which allows Dave time to make something new nearly every week

Animated butterfly with drop shadow

2010-03-27T12:53:00.000Z

Dave has experimented over the years with different sorts of animated butterflies and we have many on our website.
A few years back he tried to give a shadow effect in the hope of making the animation more realistic.
I found this animation, one that has never been published and think that Dave nearly got it right. Maybe he should experiment a little further.
The big problem, I think, is that the shadow will only look right on the correct colour background. In Flash you can actually make the shadow transparent.
Dave has worked quite a bit with Flash but decided a few years back that for the majority of people it is much easier to insert an animated gif into a website.

Animated Cod

2010-03-26T16:51:00.000Z

Is it Cod and chips? No it is an animated cod, Dave’s latest creation. Not something you might keep in an aquarium but someone may have a use for it.
We have made another Chad animation, "what no Yorkshire" was requested but we are not quite sure what it was being used for.
We have been told that we have Irish animations but we have no Welsh ones...Could be Welsh and Scottish ones in the pipeline. Dave has been busy looking at the national symbols for these countries but is complaining that a leek is not any easy thing to draw.

Animated Awareness ribbons

2010-03-21T11:28:00.004Z

On our website we have some Animated awareness ribbons

Occasionally we get requests for special ones.

This is the latest one made by Dave and will be added to the site at a later date.

Its handy that I now have this blog as I can update you with news faster than Dave can on our website

Attacking spider animation

2010-03-20T11:27:00.003Z

Dave was not too sure about this one, just how does a spider attack?

This animation was requested and this is Dave's take on it.

We have spiders on our main website so we were able to use the existing 3D model for this animation. A few years back a research centre investigating people's fear of spiders asked if they could use our animated spiders in tests.

We love the spiders you get in the UK as they eat those horrible blue bottles (We even have animations of those) but whooaaa, not sure about some we have met up with abroad.

Free Easter Animations

2010-03-18T18:23:00.005Z

This week we have updated the Easter animations and given readers of this blog an Easter egg you will not find on our website
Dave has not made anything new but has rearranged and made better animations in some cases.
Some of our animations were made in the days of the 56k modem and the file size was kept to the minimum. Now most people are on broadband the quality and file size of our animations has improved . We rarely exceed the 100 kb file size for any animation these days where we used to try and keep them to 30kb.
Dave has several things on the go including an attacking spider, now that’s a strange one… how does a spider attack?

Election animations, UK political animated gifs

2010-03-17T18:18:00.005Z

ElectionWe do not have a lot of time for politicians and this political page about the upcoming general election just about says it all. You have a section of “vote for” your favourite political party spinning badges like the badge we have here. Be warned, if you visit this page Dave has used some strong language on one of his animations.
Very unusual for him but I actually encouraged it as we feel strongly about the present situation with British politicians.

Sometimes, but not very often we add content mid week, in this case the badges were easy to make and the “trough” animation had been made some time before.

Long live the Dot and Dave animation party.

Free animations for blogs and websites

2010-03-14T18:57:00.001Z

This is the beginning of a new era, I have decided to start up my own blog rather than rely on Dave to set up my "Digest" each week. It also means I have access to this blog wherever I am.

The old comments can of course be found here

We both love cockles whelks and jellied eels so Dave has made a webpage with some animations about them.

Sometimes we travel down to Folkestone and one of our first stops is at a seafood stall to but some.

On the North Norfolk coast we have watched them collecting cockles and the dressed crabs that you can buy in some of the small seafood shops on the coastline are fantastic.

Next week Dave will be updating the Easter animations, that special time is nearly upon us again.

Who is Acorn

2010-03-14T18:46:00.004Z

Acorn is a nickname used by both Dot and Dave.
I have been married for over thirty years and Dave is the artist and animator and I am the person who hopefully supplies him with some inspiration as well as collecting some good ideas from the visitors we get to Sevenoaks Art.
We have two children and a very stubborn grand daughter.
I live in the Sevenoaks area in the garden of England called Kent.
The website started up 10 years ago with just a few graphics but we became aware that people liked the funny little animations that we now make