Any ideas on how to make these animations?

[spy1]

Hi.
I came across this site, and was absolutely amazed with the intro. Check out the "train cart" and "turntable" animation in the intro.
Any ideas on how that's done within Flash.
Any feedback is much appreciated.
Here is the link.

http://www.01-la.com/

 

[oldnewbie]

What are you waiting for to register as a member?

The train & turntable are most probably looping mcs made from some video source like an avi or a mov, or even from an animated gif.
Notice the jump cut in the train (look at the end of the train), that's probably where it's looping. It easier done with the turntable, since it's a back & forth movement.

What's interesting about this is that, although obviously this is not their first movie, these guys haven't protected the movie. Do a FIND in your temporary internet files for *.swf
This movie is named intro.swf. It might appear as intro[1].swf. Drag it (or copy it) to your desktop and import it in Flash 5. Of course you won't have layers, actionscripts or sounds, but you'll be able to analyze how most of their graphic animation is done. Both the train & the turntable will appear as static images (you would need the intro.fla to be able to see the mcs), but you'll get a good idea of how fast(in how many frames) you need to manipulate graphics to achieve what they have! I usually set my frame rate at 12fps and that seems to be the speed at which this was done!

Have fun!

;-)

 

[funkymonk]

Ahhh, 12fps...?

Hi Old, I was told to have my frame rate at 20-25fps. I do get probs with things stuttering in my movies, things like drop menus and stuff. Do you think the hight frame rate may be the problem? I never really thought about this till now. roda B-)

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[oldnewbie]

20-25 fps may cause problems on slow processors, depending on the complexity of your stuff. But to say that that's your problem is another thing!

BTW, I was wrong about the speed of

http://www.01-la.com/

It's done between 25 & 28 fps. Compared my output with the original (trying to play them in sync), and add to push it to that speed for it to work.

;-)