Blown away by the interactive Google Doodle for guitarist/inventor Les Paul’s birthday? So are we, and it’s left us hungry for more. The Google Doodle design team has created more than 700 works of art, many of them are moving in more ways than one.
The graphic at the top of this story is one of Google’s first animated doodles, written in Javascript and commemorating the 366th birthday of Isaac Newton on January 3, 2010.
Follow along in our gallery, and you’ll see nine more of the best-moving Google doodles. Some are animated, some are interactive, some are videos, but all are engaging.
The Christmas Google Doodle
Each package gets larger with a mouse-over, and a click on it returns search results pertinent to a specific country or the particular items featured in a scene. This one is from December 24, 2010.
Charlie Chaplin Google Doodle
The Google Doodle team stars in an homage to the silent film era’s greatest star’s 122nd birthday, April 15, 2011.
Google Logo Repelled by Cursor
This one’s done in HTML5 and was published Sept. 7, 2010. To get the full effect, here’s one you can interact with.
John Lennon Google Doodle
This Doodle commemorated John Lennon’s 70th birthday in October 2010.
Martha Graham
Debuting May 10, 2011, this Google Doodle marks dance choreographer Martha Graham’s birthday.
Robert Bunsen
Commemorated the birthday of the inventor of the Bunsen burner, German chemist Robert Bunsen on March 31, 2011.
Thomas Edison
The great inventor’s birthday was honored on February 11, 2011.
Independence Day
Marking Independence Day 2010.
Pac-Man’s 30th Anniversary
A real crowd pleaser was this playable Pac-Man game, which appeared on May 21. 2010. Here’s a playable version.
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