Flash banner methods
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- timpedersen
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/1…
Zoom in on the Intel "cats" banner and you'll see some static, like a tv. Is this similar to the noise you apply in photoshop to give images grain?
Is there an amazing site that has methods like this for flash? Specifically best use for banners? THANKY!
- st33d0
404 on that link chum
- alloyd0
For banners, create a 20x20 pixel image of noise in Photoshop, export as 8 or 16 color GIF, bring it into Flash, break the image apart. You can tile it, or group different pieces and randomize it...then just flip the clip around horizontally, vertically, rotate it etc. Make it loop and volia. tv static. There are other methods, this would be the fastest and simplest.
- timpedersen0
weird, anyone else?
thx st33d
- timpedersen0
Right, but why does this banner use it? You can't even see it until you zoom in. I think it's grain... or hypnosis.
- CP120
Shoot static with a camera, digitize it, FLV it, stream it from a remote server into your artwork.
This would be the least efficient way of doing it but it might look cool.
No Im not serious, really.
- alloyd0
Maybe to bring attention to the banner. It's hardly noticeable but it does constantly move. Maybe they're hoping it would catch ur eye. Most banner ads have a time limit of 15 seconds, guess doing something faint and subtle like this is a way to get around a time limit spec.
- timpedersen0
Guess i shouldve made my question clearer, whoopsy. I'm asking WHY they did it, not how. BUT THANKS YALLZ.
- timpedersen0
interesting hypothesis alloyd - stickin it to the man microscopically yeeah
- aktive0
It's probably in there to keep the banner interesting.
- CP120
OH MY BADD
- timpedersen0
COLOR ME BADD? I miss those dudes.
- visualplane_0
The venders might have asked the designer to tone down the static to make the banner more "polite". Without the static, it would just be a flat image towards the end. It's recommended to keep some sort of animation in the banner to draw attention to it to increase the click through rate in the end.
- timpedersen0
Really? I thought you had to stop all animation at the end.
- alloyd0
You do have to stop animation after 15 seconds if thats the spec. Aftre that, animation has to be user-initiated. A 'polite' banner is not 'ploite' per say but is the way how the banner downloads its content. Polite banners download child files after the rest of the webpage content has loaded. 'Politely download'.
- timpedersen0
Good tip, thanks
- visualplane_0
Yeah, some places the banners can have a unlimited loop, and others usually have a 15 second limit. Out of curiousity who do you guys use to send out your banners? Fastclick, vizimedia, and adtegrity seems to gives us the best results.
- komkrktprod0
how the f did u notice it in the first place. its not high contrast tv snow static...
- CALLES0
theres nothing that i hate more that those banners with people dancing in them