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Re: Lewa in Exo Toa Zaps Makuta
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lugnet.animation
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Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:42:39 GMT
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In lugnet.animation, Mike Thorn wrote:
> At 12:41 PM 11/27/2003, you wrote:
> > In lugnet.animation, Kyle Beatty wrote:
> > > My paint program tweens! Woo hoo!
> > > http://www.appleogue.net/weblog/zapzap.avi
> >
> > Kyle, care to share any more details about how you put this together? I'm
> > interested in knowing about different pictures/frames went into that 3 second
> > clip.
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> And of course how you created the zap effect. I can quite easily create the
> fireball (I did a smaller version in my film Glowing Orbs) but the
> lightning stumps me. You didn't draw each part by hand, did you?!
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> ~Mike
Thanks for the kind words!
It was all luck.
I started with a pic that had fortuitous lighting:
http://www.appleogue.net/weblog/20031126_light.jpg
My initial thought was just to add a lens flare using PhotoImpact
(www.ulead.com).
After a lot of fiddling around I added lightning:
http://www.appleogue.net/weblog/20031127_howididit.jpg
and then I started playing with the key frames and I discovered that the program
does an OK job of tweening between different effects. The default settings
created the slow effect.
So, the end result was done in only a few steps:
Took a picture, added a lighting effect, added another lighting effect, export.
There are twenty frames and I only did four, maybe six, instances of settings.
The paint program only exports to animated .gif (I'm sure the upgraded version
has more export options) so I had to further export it to .avi and I optimized
it with Virtual Dub (www.virtualdub.org)
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