Prepare to be in full Valentines Swoon by Google’s 2014 Valentine’s Day doodle: an illustrated audio Doodle with clickable love story snippets from public radio’s This American Life.
Head to Google’s U.S. home page, and you’ll see six candy hearts. Clicking on them will reveal a simple animation and take you into one of the stories.
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The video above shows the making of Google’s Valentine’s Day doodle, as described by the Doodler team within the company to TIME’s NewsFeed. You can see that a lot of work goes into the creation of any Google Doodle, but this one is especially elaborate. It’s also interesting to see how the animator has to balance considerations like what’s possible from an engineering perspective with mundane worries like file size.
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