Blinky and rotaty animations in the year 2006?

[ankhor]

Excuse me, but I have to ask this:
Whenever I look through the contributions in the Xara3D forum I wonder, because I thought, the time of blinky and rotaty animations would be past?
I mean, which professional website uses rotating 3D text in the year 2006?
I know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and perhaps I'm wrong, but are you able to show me such a professional (!) site?

Remi

Simple solution, you call the site "retro" and you say you
were going for the old fashioned look. If you wait long enough
the old will be new again.

[Seagull]

Hi Remi

I wrote a few days ago that I after buying Xara 3d last year and playing with it two or three times, I found it a very boring program, regretted buying it and vary rarely opened it. It was after seeing what some of the guys and gals were doing on this very forum that I started playing with it again and now find it a ball, if not a fustrating ball. No, I wouldn't want any of the animations on my site, the 3d perspective perhaps, but not the animation, but that doesn't mean I can't use the program to play and relax with. Most people play with crossword puzzels, I like playing with xara products, 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, not creating works of art like some but doodling. Sometimes I boot knoppix (just downloaded 5.0.1 yesterday) and play with it, and taking your advice I have bought Suse which hopefully will be my final version and that someday I will be able to use it in a manner similar to windows. Point is, they are all toys until you can start making money with them.

But as whether to post animation or not has nothing to do with being professional. Target your age group, decide what you want to accomplish and then go for it. Just because a person is a professional doesn't mean they have good taste, just that there are lots of people out there with worst tastes that are willing to part with their money. And from what I've seen in life, tacky, ugly, obscene, sleezy is usually where the money is...strange heh ...........frank

[SueBdoo]

I suppose if nothing else, I always have an opinion! (better late than never on an old post). Just as simple cartooning and monochrome colors can be called sophisticated or professional so can black and white movies or a painting that's a mess of color - good lord some very popular characters are missing body parts - is that professional Don't the principles of good taste and moderation apply to design as well as life? Let's not even take into consideration the advances in our options! ahhh... two cents (CDN) Note: My first ever post to a forum 'n I have to say I was online when there wasn't anything but! You just try and tell me my animation is in "bad taste". chuckle chuckle

[SueBdoo]

okay fine ... if I yack I can attach?