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Subject: Re: FLASH: please check this 3D spinning "K"
From: Carlos Ayala
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:06:30 +0100

Umm....the URL pleeez? Also jumping ahead here a bit (since i havent seen
it yet)...did you the original gradients? If so...get rid of them and use
Flash's, this will cut down on file size.

At 06:37 PM 3/29/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Please look at my attempt to create a 3D spinning "K".
>
>I think 20K is rather large for this movie - it's only 18 frames long (18
>separate stages of rotation). Here's how I did it - any advice very
>welcome.
>
>I copied and pasted my graphics from MacroModel. Once pasted in Flash, I
>then did a "Trace Bitmap" operation on it choosing after some time
>"1,1,tight,many corners" as my parameters. After this operation, I had a
>fairly faithful representation of the gradient shading of the original, so
>I didn't do anything else - I just piled up the graphics on consecutive
>frames.
>
>I'd like to get the file size down and I'd like to make it look neater. To
>be honest I haven't understood some of the advice about recreating the
>gradient fills.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>dave Cheseldine
>
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