Re: FLASH: check Flash site

[Marc Hoffman]

At 01:40 PM 1/13/99 +0100, you wrote:

>

>www.schaik.net...

>I just want to know if the animations run smooth enough and where

>i can reduce the filesize. Its now 107 k....

>Joost van schaik


Hi Joost.


This is a lovely piece of work. I love the mousePress animations you've

done (how about moving the shadow with the envelope? you can limit the

visible  area of the shadow by putting a circular mask on a mask layer

above it). The drawing, use of color, and sleekness of animation is terrific.


It loaded fast and played smoothly for me (56k modem, P166MMX, 2meg video

RAM -- not a super machine).   Personally I don't think 107k is

unacceptably large. You could do a bit more optimization by making greater

use of symbols.  Every rivet and star could be the same circular symbol

(make the original the size of a star, so the stars don't need any

transformation, since there are more of them).  I say some little drawing

artifacts when zooming in -- find them all and delete them. For example,

the upper right edge of the spacecraft seems to have an extra border around

it, with some bits of old rivets, etc.  Other examples: every thumbtack on

the picture of the woman should be the same, the two hearts could be the

same symbol (flipped, if you like, for variety).  Look at your lines where

they meet -- they can be snapped together at the ends and optimized using

modify>curves>optimize and playing with the settings on that feature.


This is the feedback you asked for, but I want to repeat this is a great

piece.  Please post when you have more!



Marc Hoffman

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