{"id":3722,"date":"2021-03-10T16:38:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2021-03-10T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:38:57","slug":"alley-cat-rally-mini-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2021\/03\/alley-cat-rally-mini-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Alley Cat Rally mini projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release of my book is creeping closer! It&#8217;s less than a month before Alley Cat Rally is published in the UK, and over the past few weeks I have been nervously trying to think of things I can do to promote the book myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started by making a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/rally\/\">mini-site<\/a> that gives a good overview of the book, the characters, and the places you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/acr\">preorder it<\/a>, alongside some other fun graphics and odds-and-ends. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s table stakes though, so I&#8217;ve done a couple more interesting projects that I&#8217;ve also made videos about.<\/p>\n<p>The first mini-project is the ballad of the little washer. I&#8217;ve had this on my shelves for years, but a desire to open it up and add some ballast to it became a mission to connect it to the internet, programming it so it will spin whenever anyone visits the short link I set up to preorder the book:<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/t9Cu-DwwSUo' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The second project is a bit less technical, but only slightly: I made a plush version of Asta, the star of the book. She wears a great pair of goggles in Alley Cat Rally, so I had to figure out how to make them, and ended up rigging up my own vacuum-forming setup, on a home kitchen scale:<\/p>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SaoRFnlBR_0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I am pleased with both of these projects, and also with the videos themselves! I think I am slowly getting more natural at using my voice, which I&#8217;m hoping will come in handy as I try to join my publisher in promoting the book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of my book is creeping closer! It&#8217;s less than a month before Alley Cat Rally is published in the UK, and over the past few weeks I have been nervously trying to think of things I can do to promote the book myself. 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