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Being Creative => Development Showcase => Topic started by: SiamJai on February 28, 2009, 14:45:52

Title: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: SiamJai on February 28, 2009, 14:45:52

Hi all,

If you are interested in animation, you might find a recent tutorial article of mine worth checking out. :) It's titled Animated logos in Fireworks CS4 (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/animated_logos.html) and it's the first article of mine published by Adobe, on the Fireworks Developer Center.

Basically, I show how to combine masking, looped symbols and some other techniques to create a 3D rolling football animation like the one below:

(http://thaiwonders.com/twgallery/albums/userpics/animated_football.gif)

Although the article is written primarily with Fireworks in mind, the principle can be applied in any graphic editor. Questions, comments can be left either in this thread or on the article itself.

Enjoy! :)

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: Evil on March 06, 2009, 05:32:20

Ive been doing everything the hard way....

Everything makes so much sense now.

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: AmADizii on March 06, 2009, 06:25:29

Cool, nice SiamJai. Helpful.

And extra points for using football, since it's the best sport.  :P

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: Purple Pineapple on March 06, 2009, 06:53:40

Quote from: AmADizii on March 06, 2009, 06:25:29

And extra points for using football, since it's the best sport.  :P

Football, imo, is not the best sport. Neither is football.

Now, SiamJai. This is indeed useful for all practical purposes, but clearly you're not a perfectionist.

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: SiamJai on March 06, 2009, 12:14:16

Thanks for checking it out! I'm glad it's of some use. :)

Evil, do you use Fireworks or some other program(s) for animation? FW is nice from the beginning, but it becomes truly useful once you figure out its unique tricks.

AmADizii, I'm glad you like it. And yep, football is cool (even at places where its called 'soccer'). ;)

 

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: Kasran on March 06, 2009, 20:26:59

Quote from: Purple Pineapple on March 06, 2009, 06:53:40

Football, imo, is not the best sport. Neither is football.

(http://www.theflipsideforum.com/Smileys/classic/hehe.gif)

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: Evil on March 07, 2009, 10:05:14

Quote from: SiamJai on March 06, 2009, 12:14:16

Evil, do you use Fireworks or some other program(s) for animation? FW is nice from the beginning, but it becomes truly useful once you figure out its unique tricks.

Yes, I do.

I never knew what do do with it, so I just left it there.

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: Dj Gopher on March 10, 2009, 01:30:11

Quote from: Purple Pineapple on March 06, 2009, 06:53:40

Quote from: AmADizii on March 06, 2009, 06:25:29

And extra points for using football, since it's the best sport.  :P

Football, imo, is not the best sport. Neither is football.

Now, SiamJai. This is indeed useful for all practical purposes, but clearly you're not a perfectionist.

Well that was a very negative and unhelpful comment..

Anyway, I found this really helpful.. I've been doing everything with way to much complication.  :/

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: Purple Pineapple on March 10, 2009, 03:03:18

Quote from: Dj Gopher on March 10, 2009, 01:30:11

Well that was a very negative and unhelpful comment..

Well, let me rephrase it. Football is a good sport, and this is a helpful tool. <_<

Title: Re: My animation article on Adobe.com
Post by: SiamJai on March 14, 2009, 07:50:54

Evil and Dj Gopher: if you guys would like to know more, I'll update this thread whenever I write articles about how to animate with Fireworks the easy way.

For a start, I wrote a short tutorial earlier about making a beating heart animation (http://thaiwonders.com/design/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=204); basically it's drag&drop, enter some numbers, click a couple buttons and hit play.  ;)

More to come.