Brush-brush animations

[Egg Bramhill]

I've posted a thread on creating a brush from a brush in the XaraX forum. Unfortunately the thread is quite image intensive, so I thought I'd post this one here.
These animations are very easy and quick to make.
Just draw a simple shape, make it a brush.
Draw a simple shape with the brush, then make this brush a brush.
Draw a basic shape, give it a large line size, and then apply the brush-brush to it.
You can then do an animation by copying the frame and slightly adjusting the spacing or rotation or line width.
Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

I've posted a thread on creating a brush from a brush in the XaraX forum. Unfortunately the thread is quite image intensive, so I thought I'd post this one here.
These animations are very easy and quick to make.
Just draw a simple shape, make it a brush.
Draw a simple shape with the brush, then make this brush a brush.
Draw a basic shape, give it a large line size, and then apply the brush-brush to it.
You can then do an animation by copying the frame and slightly adjusting the spacing or rotation or line width.
Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

This is the same animation but greatly reduced in size. It's 2K in size so only has a 1 sec download even on the slowest modem

[Bob C.]

Egg,

Your animation’s are wonderful. One of the reasons I purchased XaraX (just a few weeks now) was it’s ability to make vector drawing animation. Your worm animation in the blue sphere is amazing. The first thing I made and posted within a few hours of receiving Xara was an animation. (Rotating & Tumbling Asteroid)

Within the past few days running an animation has hung my computer. Uninstalling and reinstalling XaraX has fixed that, but every time I try to make and manipulate a brush it hangs my computer in a few minuets.

I’m running an AMD 750 with Win98 and 128 MB of RAM using a Matrox Millennium II video card with a Rainbow Runner Studio daughter card (Video Capture) with the latest drivers.

Is this one of the things the new patch will fix, is anyone else having this problem?

Bob Centamore

[Egg Bramhill]

I don't know why you computer is hanging. My computer is a very old 166 mz with 128 mb memory, and whilst redraws on complicated brushes do take time I can't say they crash XaraX very often. What version of XaraX are you using? XaraX version 1.0c is the latest patch version I believe.

Egg