*Class 4, info for class 5, Testing testing, this is going to be easy I promise

Happy mid-week guys- as promised a couple of very rough examples that use the technique we’ll be working with. It boils down to a lot of duplicating layers and moving stuff around sloooowly. The biggest skill we’ll need is patience.

Below the two tests is a link that will prompt you to download a pdf. Download and “open with” Adobe Illustrator.

Open the layer palette and you will see each layer is a frame.

Piled on top of each other they can look like a mess but when you export a layered Illustrator file and select export as .swf format each layer is converted to a frame.

Going to the “file” menu select export you will encounter a dialogue box. Pull down the very top pull down menu and set to “AI Layers to SWF Frames”. There are other options as well that are more intiuitive like FPS, (frames per second) and loop. You can experiment but the greater the number of layers (think frames) the smoother the transition.

We’ll demo this and more possibilities in class, this is just to give folks a better picture of what it is the Animations process will be.

Hope everyone can see this - testing a new plug-in to embed flash.

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If you want to see how something this simple can be taken to a sublime level check out this. I’ve only pasted in the teaser - check out the link and share it.

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