Re: FLASH: RE: metagraphx

[George Malagaris]

HI Jason


Jason . wrote:


> George...

> I enjoyed your Flash movie.  It has a nice gentle moodiness to it.  I

> would speed things quite up a bit and make phrases appear together,


Well I was hoping on the spread of Pentium IIs for that :)))))


> so

> the viewer isn't made to read one word at a time, waiting for the next

> word to appear.  (I've been experimenting with elegant ways to make type

> appear.  My favorite technique is to put the type on a layer that masks

> a rectangle on the layer just below it.  The rectangle is maybe twice as

> wide as the type and filled with a gradient that goes from the

> background color on the right to the intended type color on the left.

> Then I animate the rectangle to move from left to right beneath  the

> mask, so the type sort of fades in to a nice effect.)  Also I think I

> remember at least one instance of the type overlapping the imagery in an

> unpleasant way... maybe just keep them seperate.  One the screen with

> the woman's arm, you should open the Streamline file and recolor her

> hand a color closer to that of her arm, because presently it looks

> slightly disconnected.  Nice work overall.  I hope this is helpful.

> ...Jason

>

>


Thank you very mucgh for your helpful critiqueall points taken on board will

update it as soon as i get some time

[sometime in the next 1000years]


thanks


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