Re: FLASH: Communicating about adding Flash to apps

[Michael Stanton]

>

>>I would suggest that people who are using Flash in places other than the

web

>>speak up about it in this list. Let us know what kind of cool stuff you're

>>doing


I'm currently doing Flash animations for CD-ROM. Our Documentation

Department is converting written manuals, newsletters, reports, etc. to HTML

for display in a web browser. This has been extremely well received by

clients and my project is to display an introductory animation on a

quarterly basis since that's when CD-ROM updates will be sent to clients.

Each quarterly animation will be different than the last.


I'm pushing to do even more Flash and Director related projects, especially

integrating the two, but the company is new to multimedia animations and is

currently taking a curious but cautious approach. My supervisor, on the

other hand, is very supportive and enthusiastic about it--very gung-ho--and

wants to supply cutting-edge animations to our clients. I have used Adobe

After Effects to create animated splash screens for integration in our

InstallShield software release installs. Based on the popularity of those

animations, she's given me the green light to learn and use both Director

and Flash. Hopefully, more animation projects will come my way since I'm

really hooked on using this stuff. "Work" has never been so much "fun"!


Actually, I consider myself very fortunate to see all my previous "static"

art, done in Illustrator, Photoshop, and even PageMaker and Quark, spring to

life thanks to sound and movement made possible by software like After

Effects, Director, and Flash. I'm completely sold on animation and look

forward to an increasing workload of such projects.


Mike Stanton

Graphic Designer | Waterloo, WI

stantonjefnet [dot] com

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Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 12:00 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Communicating about adding Flash to apps



>

>>I would suggest that people who are using Flash in places other than the

web

>>speak up about it in this list. Let us know what kind of cool stuff you're

>>doing.

>

> Once, I took a self-playing animation and recorded

> it to VHS tape and projected it on a wall at a party.

> We didn't have the means for proffessional output at

> that time, so all I did was set up an external tv

> monitor with a vcr connected, displayed the .swf

> file full screen on the tv monitor and recorded

> it directly. We were really concerned about image

> quality, playback and colors (reds bleed on tv, etc.)

> but it actually worked out quite nicely.

>

> I have also used Flash movies as part of a CD-rom

> presentation by running seperate .exe files. (with

> help from a few on this list).

>

> And now, I am looking into ways of incorporating

> Flash .exe's for an installation, but director

> may take over there...

>

>

>

>

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>   ___________________________________________________________

>   Jen Dugan | Information Designer | Sigma6 Interactive Media

>        http://www.sigma6.com | http://www.eden.sigma6.com

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