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[zaphodeist]

Nice one! And thanks for the tip Gary

[hrhpaul]

Sorry, I couldn't resist it.......

[buckobeck]

I'm glad you didn't, your Christmas combine is awesome.

[gray]

Very clever Squeaky and hrhpaul.

[a4hire]

Very nice work everyone, I really liked that animation from squeaky. I didnt know that you could add sound to xtreme flash files. Was that all done with xtreme ? I couldn't figure out what the sound was. I thought it was my cat getting into something and then I saw Gary's post that said to click on the box and there he was

[steve.ledger]

No way to add sound to Xara flash (yet) Bruce.
I'd say the artwork was done in Xtreme but the flash done ine Adobe Flash or SwishMax at a guess

[masque]

Merry Christmas. Take heart it will all be over soon.
Derek

[Squeaky]

Hi Guys:
My workflow for the cat animation is as follows:
Pencil rough in Sketchbook pro.
Colour illustration In Xara Xtreme pro.
Backgrounds exported from Xara as swf's
Illustration used as a tracing image in Anime studio pro.
Animation done and exported from ASP to Flash as swf's
Everything put together in Flash CS3.

Actually I have put up an e-card site with this and some of my older Christmas cards (Pretty much the same workflow) should anyone want send any:
http://www.squeakycards.com

There are a few 'postcards' (no animation) cards done 100% in Xara.

[a4hire]

Thanks for the work flow Squeaky, I see that you used 4 programs to make the card.

[gray]

Derek thanks, I'll take heart.

Squeaky, love the cards, especially Jumper.