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Subject: Re: FLASH: Interfacing a 3D App with the Flash Synthetizer C Library
From: john brzys
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:21:20 +0100

EXCUSE ME, but, WHAT FUN is DAT! 8 frames left to go of 27 individual frames
of a 3D animation turning round and round...... and I'm having so much fun
doing this.......

Isn't that why Flash included drawing tools in the application?

cya,

Mary Brzys

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Penne <digit8ratyahoo [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: Interfacing a 3D App with the Flash Synthetizer C
Library


>
>
> > That's
> > not to say that
> > you wouldn't get better results in autotracing after
> > running the
> > bitmap frames through some image-processing steps,
> > like posterizing
> > or otherwise reducing the number of colors.
>
> I've been rendering from ElectricImage using the
> built-in cartoon shaders to reduce the # colors, then
> playing with the settings in Trace to get a pretty
> nice, anime style. At this point, tracing each frame
> takes the most time.
>
> > There have been very few 3D renderers aimed at
> > producing a wide
> > variety of styles in a structured drawing format
> > (Illustrator, Flash,
> > PICT drawing, Windows metafiles, etc.).
>
> Been also looking at the cartoon shaders for Max
> (Cartoon shop, etc.) but I've found that the built in
> shaders in EI to be about as good.
> >
> > For fun, take a look at Viewpoint LiveArt at
> > <http://liveart.viewpoint.com/>. It produces
> > bitmaps, unfortunately,
> > but a product like this could produce a wide variety
> > of artistically
> > styled, non-photorealistic renderings of 3D objects,
> > and those bitmaps
> > might autotrace in interesting ways. It looks like
> > they're offering
> > a $99 bundle to get Nichimen Nendo for Windows, an
> > entry-level 3D modeler
> > <http://www.nichimen.com/nendo/> along with LiveArt.
>
> I'll check it out, thanks! While not Flash, I've also
> been looking at the brilliant3d(Max) plug-in
> (www.b3d.com), so far one of the best streaming 3d
> formats I've found.
>
> > I worked for Viewpoint until June 30.
> >
> > - John
>
>
>
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