Magic Monkey Minifier

Morgan Wallace, Derek Kan, Andrew Win, and yours truly created a simple one-page link shortener a while ago. Being in charge of design and wanting to make it tongue-in-cheek memorable, I proposed to the guys that the theme of the app should be magic (as in: "transmuting long links to short ones"). We all had a good laugh and agreed on it.

I fired up Photoshop and stitched up a monkey wearing a magical fez and holding a big scroll. Wanting to make the tiny fellow a bit spookier, I created the blink keyframes, made it wag its tail, and added the candle in the background. The final touch was the app title - it would evaporate on mouse hover, revealing the app credits.

You can see the final version at http://magic-monkey.herokuapp.com

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