Faster flash 3/7

The prehistoric dig animation uses a good example of a shape tween, where moving and clickable hammers seem to chip away at different areas of the rock to reveal the image of different fossils. The link is to "Sea Monsters" and is a good example of a button interactive site incorporating full graphics and images into map-like environments with multiple point and click layers that can be stopped by the viewer for text information and historical reading on the subject matter. This is a type of map that is almost more like a movie that can be stopped in it's tracks and querried for the ideal combination of moving images, map format, and many selectable links. There are almost no loading times, and the site's interactions are fast, and movie paced. There's a map animation that moves forward and backward across the milleniums of pre-historic creatures, and each monster looks like it's going to bite the viewer's head off while the viewer reads the supporting captions. It can be found on the web-page link to http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine