The November 2004 Xara Xone.
The watch tutorial is 44 steps. Whew, I'm beat.
See you tomorrow.
Comments and questions always welcome.
Gary
The November 2004 Xara Xone.
The watch tutorial is 44 steps. Whew, I'm beat.
See you tomorrow.
Comments and questions always welcome.
Gary
The November 2004 Xara Xone.
The watch tutorial is 44 steps. Whew, I'm beat.
See you tomorrow.
Comments and questions always welcome.
Gary
What a wonderful featured artists show! Can't wait to tackle the tutorial but, alas, I'm still trying to find time to work on last months.
This is another terrific xaraxone, as always, thanks for all the effort you put into these.
tim
Anotehr Great month. I really liked the work of the featured artists.
Great month Gary, good stuff. You deserve a rest now! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
I always greatly enjoy the Featured Artist Gallery but this month's a particular piece stood out for me. I would dearly love to see the full sized version of Paul Shotan's "Parrish". Ifr you read this Paul and if there's a link to view it please post it. I love Maxfield Parrish too and this work that you did looks just asstounding!! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
Your watch tutorial is very nicely put together and am downloading the zipped version to work through later. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication Gary! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Since no one else has mentioned it...
We expanded John Horn's Xeus tutorials in the Guest Tutorial adding more steps and explanations for using his bitmap editor.
Xeus is a really helpful utility and I recommend it to anyone who uses Photoshop. While it does not do all the things that Photoshop does (obviously), it does many of the more common things that we use Photoshop to do. And using it along with XPE gives Xara a trmendous amount of bitmap editing capabilities.
Gary
Great stuff Gary ... we really DO appreciate your efforts http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
Fabulous group show ... nice work guys!!!
EXCELLENT!!!!!! Great work Everyone!
It took me about 5 hours to do the tutorial but it was time well spent.
Wow Bill, that looks great! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Thanks Richard. Using named colors as Gary pointed out in the tutorial, makes changing it to a gold watch very easy.
Exceptional work on this month's tutorial, Gary! The result is a portfolio piece, and the journey is one of great learning and discovery. Well worth all the hard work, Gary.
The group show and guest tutorials were also very enjoyable!
Thanks for contributing everyone!
Nice touch Bill with the color shift.
I made one or two modifications after the tutorial was finished including some dark reflections on the links and a highlight on the crystal.
Gary
Gary, great modifications. They add to the impact of the image.
Oooh ... nice work Bill and Gary!
Gary
Here's my attempt at the watch. I've created in XaraX for export to Flash, so one or two techniques couldn't be used. The link to the Flash version is here
Egg
Outstanding tutorial Gary. Seeing the fine work of Bill and Egg, I'm going to try it myself. Pretty sure it will take me longer than Bill's five hours, but since I've not tackled anything like this before I expect to learn a lot.
Phil Thompson
Egg,
You are such a "show off" http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif ... great animation!
Very Nice Flash Egg! One suggetion, make the minute hand move also. there are some fools who will sit and see if the minute hand will move. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif I do not think there are enough fools to warrant the hour hand moving.
John the minute hand works for this "old fool" sat and watched it happen to see if it did. It goes with large single movement and at the end of it you expect to hear a tick or its it a toc.
Have started Gary's tut but had to stop after two hours could be the hardest one from Gary yet.
Egg
I like the Flash animation and the realistic touched you have added to the watch.
Daniel Will Harris, a long time Xara users and fan, had designed a series of watches and used Flash to animate them including some Flash time piece screen savers. Some of Daniel's watches are sold in the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Click here to go to his timepieces page.
Gary
"John the minute hand works for this "old fool" sat and watched it happen to see if it did." - Albacore
This old fool only watch one revolution of the second hand, and it did not move. the minute hand moves on every 2 cycles of the second hand. Watched it for five minutes to make sure.
Next Egg will have us watching grass grow... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Gary
Thanks for the link. I find it interesting in this digital age that analogue, regardless of how bizare is often more intuitive... even if the anolgue is digital !!!
John
You win a henweigh! There is an error in my action script code whereby the minute finger only advances once every 2 rotations of the second hand. But as this was only an exercise I can't be assed to hunt it down.
Albacore / Ed
Thanks for the comments.
One of the limitations I have found either with Flash OR Xara's swf export to Flash is the way scaling line widths works. The very small azimuth scaling around the watch is a prime example of this. I give an example here
Egg
cool My Very Own henweigh. I always wanted my very own henweigh!
I've got to say, this tutorial ROCKS! Definitely an oldie, but goody, and not one for the faint of heart or the easily distracted. Once again, thank you Gary.
After a new thread for this watch surfaced and a couple of unrelated Google searches brought this up I figured Fate must have wanted me to give it a go. So, here it is in all its glory...
With an added touch or two (of course ;)),
Harry
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Well done Harry!
Kudos, Harry.
And thanks for adding the disclaimer at the bottom. :)
Very well done, Harry!
Most excellent HayTay!
Nice one Harry! :)
Bill, Gary, Allison, Frances and John: I thank you for your enthusiastic support. All but 98+ percent of the credit goes to Gary for this, and all of his, excellent tutorial(s), though. He's the one that did all of the hard work.
Gary, give yourself a well deserved pat on the back and take a bow. You deserve it! I still find it amazing that, after all of the tutorials and workbooks of yours that I've done (over 33 and still counting), I'm still learning something new or a new way of doing something from each one. BTW, in case anyone wants to run off to start counting, I have yet to post all of the tutorials I've completed. :o
You are most welcome. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
I gotta go, another tutorial awaits,
Harry