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Announcements

"Stop the Press"

A new show presented as a part of the Theater Arts and Digital Art New Media Program at UCSC

Two weekends:
Feb. 26-27-28 and March 4-5-6-7
Thu-Fri-Sat at 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm
Sundays at 3:00 pm only

An Article of Interest

Interview with Russell Brown in MacLife 3/2010

"Photoshop Turns 20!"

Russell Brown, Adobe Senior Creative Director

His recommended online resources:

Animating In Flash Continued

Tweening

Tweening positioning animation

More Types of Flash Animation

Pick Your Poison

Tweened Rotation
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Uses "Planetary Motion" nesting of movie-clips

Masked Animation
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Uses an animated mask to reveal animated rectangles

Rotoscoped Animation
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Uses "Rotoscoping" or tracing from film to create several clips.

The fabulous rotoscoped "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" from the Beatles' Yellow Submarine (credits for the Lucy Segment are here in Wikipedia)

Code Based Animation

Rosette

  • Rosette animation detects mouse direction and sparks off corresponding little "glimmers"
  • Click in center runs a special animation behind a mask of the rosette's lines
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  • This is the Rosette without its masks…

Illuminated Dreams

  • My MFA thesis project

More Basic Flash

Path motion & Sound

A Simple Flash Document

flashdemo1.zip