Re: AW: FLASH: Flash 6 Beta testers needed.

[Laura Mollett]

> looks like a mouse trailer froced to x movement. added some random movement.

> finally put differnet colored mc onto eachother  to created to color blur.

>

>

> david


hm, my guess would be: take a video of a candle flame, reduce it to

individual frames (delete 3/4s of the frames or more :), trace bitmap each

frame - reduce the number of colors to 1, and number of curves to an

absolute minimum (would give those circles on the bottom, i think), sometime

or another split the image into 2 clips (they might be identical, or just

cut apart, I don't know). One image is below the other (layerwise) with the

alpha set so they blend where they cross. Then just run the two movie clips.

Then the buttons just color the movie clips (like the coloring book

tutorials) or switch to a different clip (for more wind).


That's a basic idea of course... there's a lots more work in that than I'm

implying - it's a great job! I'd love to see a tutorial as well :) We've

been working on something similar and this is an awesome application -

reducing to two colors and then setting the alpha so you get shading (and

even some black from the background) works really well to keep it more

naturalistic (less "cartoony") as well as the motion. I wonder how many

frames it took and whether it's all frame by frame animation or there's

shape tweening?


Laura


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