Re: FLASH: New Flash cartoon to check

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 04:37 AM 12/27/99 , you wrote:

>  I wonder if someone might have

>some tricks for something like this that I could try for next time.

>

>http://www.web-host.net/~bmays/turnabout.html

>

>Takes about a minute to start playing on a 28.8 modem.


Looks very good, runs smoothly on my slowest test machine (P166). If it's 

600k and takes a minute to load, sounds as if you're preloading the whole 

thing. That's not necessary; figure out how much needs to preload so that 

the rest is delivered by the time it is needed.


I see you reuse some symbols (clouds) but not sure how many others. The 

drawing style doesn't lend itself well to using symbols (this is not a 

criticism, just a note). If you found a typeface to give you that rough 

hand-drawn look, and stuck to that plus your sans serif face, you'd save a 

lot of bytes. Every thing that can be a symbol should be one, e.g. the 

windows in the buildings. I think your drawings are pretty well optimized 

for the style, but if you can smooth out any small details without losing 

the feel, that will help, too. Select lines or fills and use either the 

smooth tool or modify->curves->optimize to see the results, then undo if 

not acceptable.

Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media. Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

Our latest Flash work is on display at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd>

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