May 2013 Xara Xone Tute: A Return to Animation

[csehz]

Maybe just one more try with the transparency technique, I felt easier to reproduce the hand writing than moving rectangles




Pencil countdown_Hello5.swf

Pencil countdown_Hello5.xar

[Gare]

That is quite lovely and remarkable, csehz!

From an artistic point of view, it doesn't bother me at all that the lettering isn't in perfect synch with the pencil.

All the motions look fluid, and interesting!

I just looked at the *.xar file and the way toy broke up the characters is VERY clever! Did you also think of using perhaps Circular transparency?

Named and unnamed animation elements working beautifully together!

Bravo!

You win The Bent Blue Pencil Award!



-g

[csehz]

Thanks Gare, well but unfortunately I can not deserve the award because relating the breaking up the characters, I followed absolutely the logic of Xara so the program is clever. From my side the performance was rather to write these letters with mouse in Freehand tool! Setting the smooth to 100%, but after just converted the line to shape and in Shape tool break at points where Xara put them.

The synch with the pen yes sure not perfect, but was and still thinking a little bit where is the balance. For example slowing it down with 0,5s steps, maybe this version could be in synch, but fasting it up I do not like. Maybe there is more air somehow in the animation if the pen goes slightly ahead than the line



Pencil countdown_Hello8.swf
Pencil countdown_Hello8.xar

[Barbara B]

Nice work csehz!

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