Hi all. This is question kinda piggy backs on an earlier topic in the tribe. A friend of mine's boss wants an animated gif to be created from one photo. I'm rusty at flash, so I went back and looked at what others had suggested for online tutorials. I bookmarked accordingly.
My plan is to do the tutorial from kirupa.com: www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm
to get me back into the groove, and then try to apply the same principles to the photo image that needs to be animated.
If I want to apply this technique to a photographic image, what do I need to know?
What they want is the guy's mouth in the photo to blow dust off an object.
If this is too over my head, I'm going to let her know right away. In the meantime, if anyone has ever worked on a job like this and has any tricks/suggestions to offer me, I'd be most thankful for your help.
My plan is to do the tutorial from kirupa.com: www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm
to get me back into the groove, and then try to apply the same principles to the photo image that needs to be animated.
If I want to apply this technique to a photographic image, what do I need to know?
What they want is the guy's mouth in the photo to blow dust off an object.
If this is too over my head, I'm going to let her know right away. In the meantime, if anyone has ever worked on a job like this and has any tricks/suggestions to offer me, I'd be most thankful for your help.
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Re: Kinda new question
Tue, August 15, 2006 - 11:46 PMHey Beth,
so i think this is more of a photoshop thing. the thing with photographs - you can't really change it in flash. you can cut it up in photoshop and then move parts of the face, (like chin and lips) but it's going to look very cartoony. is that the result you're trying to achieve? sort of like the quiznos comercials, if you've seen them :) but blowing will be very difficult to imitate in this manner. it may look very awkward.
and if you're trying to get a realistic effect, then you pretty much need to shoot a movie and import frame by frame into flash.
hope this helps. let me k now if you need any specific directions.
-m.
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Re: Kinda new question
Fri, August 25, 2006 - 8:15 PMHey Masha. I was making things too hard for myself as usual. It looks better to have the image where he is blowing the dust as my background image throughout the gif. I copied the bits of dust from the image and made 3 different dust piles that will get "blown around" in a seemingly random fashion on the stage.
Now I'm having trouble with the motion tween. I followed all the tutorials on how to create a motion tween but all I seem to be able to do is make my graphic sit at the bottom of the stage for 30 frames instead of going from top to bottom of the stage.
I know it's probably something really obvious that I'm missing but I can't figure it out, sooo, if you or anyone else out there can coach me through this step I'm missing over the phone, that would be great.
I've put the batcall out to another flash friend for help on this :-) -
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Re: Kinda new question
Sat, August 26, 2006 - 11:43 AMWell, I don't know what I did wrong yesterday, or what I did right today but it's working.
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Re: Kinda new question
Wed, September 6, 2006 - 4:55 PMto make a motiontween work, -
1. your object has to be a symbol
2. your symbol must be alone on that layer
but looks like you got it working already :)
-m.
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