Any chance you could upload your xar file Gary?
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Any chance you could upload your xar file Gary?
Very good chance, Egg. ;)
Sharing is what an art community is all about.
My Best,
Gary
Cheers Gary, I couldn't work on yours as it was to difficult to back engineer the animation but I think this is what you may find helpful. There are a couple of warnings on export but it doesn't seem to effect the final results. To grasp a lot of what's happening it's best to view each frame in wire-frame.
And a further refinement. This animation is similar to the last but as well as rotating some elements have been expanded or contracted using Shift resizing. I think this effect gives a more chaotic look to the ani.
And finally I'm off to bed but here's another with a slower end transition. This has increased the swf file size greatly.
Egg that is very spectacular like that! It makes me thinking which picture could assemble like that :D
Relating the bitmaps so far were not my big friends in animation because of the size, but I should be more open as for example this tutorial from 2007 explains http://www.xara.com/news/september07/tutorial.asp that possible even recolor a bitmap between of frames. And the size is not so criminal
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Excellent animation csehz.
Thanks for the insight and work, Egg. I really have no intention of a "repeat performance", because the little art experiment was validation enough that an off-centered group of shapes could be rotated around a central point if you use an invisible circle as the parent shape.
I originally got the idea after seeing a bunch of novel puzzles and got to wondering why there aren't circular puzzles. And I didn't want the animation to fully artistically resolve itself; creating and setting up the art was a nightmare I don't want to repeat!
My Best,
Gary