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Gradient Effects & Animated Backgrounds

A background setting can be particularly useful to create atmosphere or even a mood to your Flash animation. In this tutorial, we will be using a range of tools and techniques to build a background and bring it to life.

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Flash Animation – TARBOY

This is another brilliant example of what Flash can potentially do. This short animation is entitled Tarboy. Enjoy!

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Converse – Nascar: Flash Animation

In preparation for Digital Animation, I researched existing animations produced in Flash on Vimeo. This one in particular is quite funny and beautifully created. In this case, it appears that the animator has used a traditional frame-by-frame technique.   Converse – Nascar from Sherbet on Vimeo.

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Exploring 3D Motion Tracking

I was recently browsing some YouTube clips that had 3D models composited into some basic video footage.  After a little research, I looked into some applications that specialised in 3D motion tracking. With the help of Adobe After Effects, Boujou and Newtek’s Lightwave, I was able to implement some of my own models into some […]

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Shape Tweening in Adobe Flash

This tutorial focusses on ‘shape tweening’ in Adobe Flash. 

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Turning Text To Sand

I’ve been recently introduced to a range of new effects and plugins from Red Giant Software. I spent some time over the weekend exploring ‘form’ which has some serious power and has the ability to do some really cool stuff with particles. In this example I converted some text into a layer of particles that would disintegrate, twist […]

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