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Subject: RE: FLASH: shake screen
From: Lamont, Sarah
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:16:36 GMT

hey ! : ]
for anyone wondering, that's exactly how I did it (see below)
: ]
I'm going to be working on the text part of it, I'll have to show everyone
the final version when I get it done.
cya later!

Sarah E. Lamont
�lan communications
new media designer
412.475.0268
slamontate-g [dot] com
: ]

> ----------
> From: Tom Kerwin
> Reply To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:28 AM
> To: 'flasheratchinwag [dot] com'
> Subject: RE: FLASH: shake screen
>
>
> "Re: http://www.elanweb.com/worksites/aiga
> Sarah, that was an amazingly creative use of the shake screen function.
> Great work! How did you create the animation of the man walking towards
> the
> viewer?"
>
> -----------------------------
>
> It looks to me like a bit of vectorised video (that we all know and love).
> A
> la www.websoc.org. Here's how I did it.
>
> 1) Take video of intended action
> 2) Suck video into computer and export individual frames
> 3) Use Photoshop (or other graphics package) to increase Contrast to 100%
> to
> get a 2 colour image. Play with the Brightness to display different levels
> of shadow.
> 4) Import into Flash as a sequence of frames
> 5) Spend ages tracing the bitmaps and optimising the resulting vectors.
> Use
> the bandwidth profiler to get them to stream nicely.
>
> There's a tutorial on it all in the Hillman Curtis book "Flash Web Design"
>
> And there's a similar animation to Sarah's on www.designabyte.com, but I
> think hers has more energy and impact. Punchy. Literally...
>
> Happy flashing, gang.
>
> T xxx
>
>
>
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