flash animation
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- spaniard
We're doing a studio move mailout, and the idea is to shoot a video from above of someone roughly sketching out a map of directions to the new place in black marker. We then want to convert the video to a flash animation which will look kind of scratchy and rough, almost like a bitmapped effect. How difficult will this be, and any examples of similar style animations anyone knows of?...
- ********0
this will be no more difficult than making coca cola.
- spaniard0
right.....
- spaniard0
anyone got any ideas on this?...
- ********0
use after effects, not flash.
- function820
if the office is close you should have the screen have the map in one section and someone walking there in the other, at the same pace as the drawing.. kinda like a video game when the map is open.
on how to do it, if you're going to import it into flash, and its all video and video effects, make it in aftereffects then import to flash (FLV recommended) or leave as a quicktime movie and forget flash
- d1v0
Use some video software (Final Cut Pro, Premiere, After Effects, etc.) to take your completed video and downframe it to approx. 5fps. Then output it as a sequence of PICT or BMP files. Import those images into Flash as a sequence and run (in Flash MX 2004) Modify > Bitmap > Trace Bitmap on each image. This'll make each bitmap image a vector image. That process should yield the "scratchy" effect you're after. It may help to pre-process your video--in one of the aforementioned video apps--by converting it to grayscale and increasing the contrast quite substantially.
Good luck!
- instantok0
that will work but the flash file will be HUGE...i would just do all of the effects/animation in after effects then import the video to flash as mentioned before...will save you time and headaches in production
- d1v0
It will only be huge if the vectors are detailed. If you keep the vector detail down to a minimum, the file size will be much lower than video could achieve. Sure, low file size means less detailed graphics, but I think this'll give you the effect you're looking for. Then, to make it readable, insert a high-quality frame on the last frame of the animation so the viewer can actually read the map. As long as this animation isn't too long, it should be fairly easy (albeit boring) to create.
- spaniard0
thanks for the ideas, I was thinking about after effects myself, I reckon we could side step flash altogether, it's going up on our site with a mailed out link so could be quicktime...
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