YOU WANT TO HEAR A GOOD ONE?

So, about a week and a half ago, @JohnNY posted the question , "Taco should have a video showing how the 570 zone valve works." I had often thought that would be a good thing to have, but I couldn't find one, so I decided to see if some AI program could take the Taco brochure, instruction sheets, and all the information available online and simply "make the video."

...That didn't work either.

Then I looked at some free animation software on the web and typed up a sequence of operation that I put into the AI program HeyGen, which helped me create my first AI avatar video. Now I had a soundtrack and a still screenshot of the Taco valve diagram, but I still had no way to make the thing move.

Then I thought about the old flip-book cartoons I used to make in my Textbooks in 7th grade, where you made a stick figure walk across the bottom of the pages.

This is what I came up with:

EDIT: This is the finished version. The original is below it.

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Now, a couple of you gave it an AWESOME icon, and I thank you guys for that. I wonder wha @Joe Mattiello and @SteveSan from Taco would think of it .

It took over a week to modify each part of the animation one frame at a time and to learn how the video software worked. I still couldn't figure out how to "render" the video after I was able to play it within the program. So I went old-school again and simply shot a video with my iPhone of the animation running on my laptop within the free video editor software.

I was able to use the same frame over and over again once I got each frame in the proper sequence, especially the part where the heat motor switch opens and closes repeatedly during the call for heat.

I hope you like the video, and as I get better at this, the quality will get better too.