Okay, so it’s no “Raccoon Tail” but the power of Tron is universal! Take anything, give it a blue cast with light blue lines running all over it and it just screams high tech in a dated retro/futuristic way (think Jetsons clothes with rings on ‘em). In other words, if I was a Goomba standing in between mTron and his I/O Tower...ahh, I/O Warp Tube, my plans for an ambush would be put on indefinite hold. Then again, you could always send out one of those hybrid terrapin/albatrosses and call it the “first wave”. If it takes out mTron, the Goomba can take credit and if it doesn’t, then it can run like heck. Of course, a Goomba’s “run” is more like a frantic shambling shuffle.

That’s a Catch-22... with a bullet!

Yes, I probably spent far more time than I should have on the above shapes, meticulously following the steps I laid out here and even going as far as dipping into the XML of the Keynote file to make sure every segment was as straight as could be. All this just so I could set it up here for you to download.

However, there IS a madness to this method. Keynote is more than just a presentation program, you can do way cool things with it. Today, aside from grabbing a few images from Google to use as textures, the rest was done entirely in Keynote with a few graphic elements added in iWeb. Once you stop thinking of Keynote as PowerPoint’s rival and instead see it as a program you can use to create things much more FUN than the projected earnings of XYZ Company, you’re opened up to a higher level of creativity. If your creativity still happens to need a good kickstart, download the Keynote file linked to the Question Block above and create a “presentation” that’s a Mario cartoon. Keynote even includes the same cartoon speech balloon that’s in iWeb so there’s nothing to it but to do it! If you’re heading back to school, toss in some pictures from “What You Did this Summer” and you’re starting out the new term on the right foot!