Creating a picture sequence

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:23 pm

I want to make some animated pics for my website, preferably with macro media flash s I now have this, but have no idea how to, anyone know about this program who can give some simple tips/advice??

andycaca · Post by **andycaca** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:41 pm

flash is a hugely complex animation feature, but there are lots of useful beginners tutorial styleee examples on the web

check out these, for a start

http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/default.asp
&
http://webwasp.co.uk/

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:49 pm

Thanks, I'll have a read

Actually want to use it so I can have a few pics rotate with some sort of fading between them, nothing major or fancy

MichaelH · Post by **MichaelH** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:16 pm

Might ber easier to do some gifs then?

You can get some evaluation software to make some trial gifs, should be able to acomplish what you're after with it.

http://www.blumentals.net/egifan/

andycaca · Post by **andycaca** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:19 pm

animated gifs are easier, but they will take longer to load and wont look as impressive as doing it with flash

setting up a slideshow with flash isnt that hard, infact im sure there are loads of prebuilt flash files which allow you to use your own images. as with most things, its a matter of finding them

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:30 pm

Yep tried it with animated gif's and took a long time and didn't look as good in my eyes so it'll have to be a flash

I think what I want to do is have a 5 pic show, each one fading out and the new one fading in, running a loop, no user input etc. Just so I can display a few pics of new cars I've worked on, so I need to be able to do it so I can update as and when needed.

I think it would be really handy and eye catching when you have something like this appear (smaller size though)

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:44 pm

Bloody hell mate, that car is like a mirror !!!!

You should speak to Dunk, he is good with animations. Every meet I have asked him what the software uses and I end up forgetting.

Post by **Ben** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:51 am

SHINY - OMG mate - that is incredible!!.

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:16 am

Gary - download this little baby :
http://www.flashkit.com/downloads/movie ... mation.zip

Open the zip file and open the FLA file.

Replace the images in the file and you should be good to go

Why re-invent the wheel when some kind soul has already done it and showed you how

- you have got to love developers having egos

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:01 pm

Many thanks Duncan

Thanks also for comments on the pic, I thought you'd like it :P and yes it was one I did at the weekend, only 12 hours work :roll: