Jumping the gun on July

This was inspired by the Maestro of X, Gary Priester. He posted a mini tute on neon glass in the Xara forum. I ran with the idea and posted it here. It may take some time to load @ 106 kb.

Wayne

This was inspired by the Maestro of X, Gary Priester. He posted a mini tute on neon glass in the Xara forum. I ran with the idea and posted it here. It may take some time to load @ 106 kb.

Wayne

Wayne that is one good image, where would be if we didn't have Gary?.........tao

Nice little (little?) animation Wayne.

I do a bit of animation in the July tutorial, completed and in final editing at the moment, but not as part of the tutorial.

I wonder if you export your frames as SWF and do the animation in Flash if you can make the file size more realistic?

Roger, thanks.

Gary

Gary Priester

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Wayne,

Great image and animation!

I'm very impressed with your timing! The neon flicker at the start up is absolutly awesome!

Well done! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Bob C.

Thanks for the positive comments.

4 frames. Timing in seconds is: 2, .05, .05, 4, repectively. That flicker is the second and third frame. If I remove those frames, the effect is gone but the file size is reduced by about half. In addition to Gary's tube technique, I used a combination of Xara's outerglow (shadow tool).

Gary, that glass tubing technique really rocks. I'm going to try this in flash and (try) to post it here. Contours and blends make it to flash, but your technique calls for a bitmap with a merge mode (contrast). Exporting as is results in a dogs breakfast right now. I'll be back [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

Wayne

Wayne

I already tried it. File size about 70K and ugly.

But if you stick to vector shapes, even for the blurred glow beyond the tube and stuff it works pretty well and the file size is a lot less.

Gary

Gary Priester

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Gary,

I'm about halfway through the Flash version and it looks good. As mentioned before, contours and blends export well. The bulb however, was exported as an eps. I tried it as swf, but it wasn't as smooth. I'll explain in more detail later (perhaps as a guest tute [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]). The process for converting your "glass look" (bitmap to vector) is rather time consuming but worth it.

I'll probably be done later tonight.

Wayne

BTW... can someone please post the exact coding for embedding a flash movie to this forum? Thanks.

Hi Wayne,

I found a program that makes Flash movies called Koolmoves for $39 US. I did a post here at talkGraphics in the "Test" forum - its at the bottom of the list and my post is called "Flash Movie test made with Koolmove"

I just uploaded it as a 'Post Attachment" and you see it as KMflash.swf - when you select it the movie plays.

Bob C.

I tried embed it inline here on the page, but I didn't know how. Bob, thanks anyway, but I wanted to try and display the swf on this page. I checked your post and it was only downloadable. I know I saw it done on another thread somewhre ... just can't remember where.

Here it is FlashBulb (30kb, btw)

Regards, Wayne

Wayne,

Even better than your first post and 1/3 the size!

Cool flashbulb ivca!

Regards, Ross

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Bob,

1/3 the size. That's vector for you! Innit' great how much more cleaner vector is to bitmap. Zoom in on it by right clicking.

Thanks Ross.

Wayne