Re: FLASH: Another "spec" work.

[Lena Bj�rklund]

Hi Sarah, Jeff & Marc.


Thanks for your feedback.

I will thoroughly think over your usable designtips.


Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media) wrote:


> At 02:43 PM 8/23/99 +0200, you wrote:

> >What do you think?

> >

> >http://home.swipnet.se/lena_b/body.html

> >

>

> hi Lena,

>

> I like the design and the timing.  I would convert the figure to vector,

> either by hand tracing or using autotrace. Should be easy, and it will look

> a whole lot smoother.


Well. This is the best result I can achive (I think) under the circumstances.

You see, my machine is getting a little fragmented or something, so my 64 Mb

RAM, doesn�t let me run Illustrator 8 and Flash 3 simultanously any more. Some

weeks ago, when a thread concerning importing from Ill to Flash was on, it

still could and I simply used the drag-and-drop technique to get the .ai:s

into Flash 3. Therefore I wasn�t alert on that thread, which maybe was

unfortunate for me, since I could have learned something from it. Now, after

testing all the exporting options in Illustrator - where the images are

smoothe enough -, I got the best result by taking screenshots from the

original drawing in the the Illustrator document, cropping them in Photoshop,

exporting them as original bitmaps, and then tracing them in Flash (with the

"normal" tracing-options). Iiiyha! Then I spent some hour or two manually

"fixing" the contours by means of the erasertool. So, to be sincere, I am a

little tired of working with those images by now. So please don�t tell me to

8=). I think they will do for the moment. But if you have any advice of the

best way using Ill 8 together with Flash 3 for future projects, I would be

glad hearing about it. By a little more RAM, maybe. Or using Freehand?


> Also I wonder if you can start with a more natural

> illusion of water flowing and then have it snap to the logo. You could

> achieve this by using a stream shape as a mask and having a water-like

> gradient move downward behind it.


I tried a little with part-breaked gradients tweening, (part-breaked because

it�s the only way (I think) to tween different "focuses" of the gradient). But

the movie all-in-all grew in size with about 70 Kb that way and I want it

"light".


> Or you could use more traditional

> animation techniques (as Disney would).

>


Hmm. In this case I would like to get far from the Disney-style, it *should*

have a little rough and wood-carved aura about it. I will restyle those small

"watersplashes" for that reason. But - oh yes - you tare talking about the

animation technique and that�s another thing. ..


Lena B - thanks and bows


PS. A little reflection:

Last week a swedish investment company staked half a billion skr in the

swedish IT-bureau Spray.

Today the swedish  agency for foreign aid, SIDA, raised one promille of that

sum to the catastroph suffering people of Anatolia.

Proportions?



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