> This required a few more minutes to write so pardon the
> delay!
Not a prob - having seen your posting habits, I knew you'd get round to it
sooner or later. ;)
> Nice little animation here, though I would probably speed
> up the speech a little. Feels a bit too slow, like the PC
> is running wrong (1600 Mhz Pentium Mobile (~2200 P4 equiv)
> shouldn't have that problem!) I'd consider adding a few
> 'wet drops' as well when ZZ is moving around. :-)
Speech is always a toughy to work out how long to make it last - I'd had it
at what I thought would be talking speed, but considering that there's no
audio and it'll probably get slower anyway on older computers, I guess
upping the tempo wouldn't hurt for this sorta thing.
As for the wet drops - well, I wanted to keep it close enough to the
original strip sans added animation, but at the same time ZZ's only just
getting started at working her hand in - there's definitely flying fluids
later on. ;)
> Can't suggest how to fix that specifically, but if you
> build each frame set, I am sure furs would be happy to have
> to just pull up the next file and watch the action. I'd
> like to see you continue this project as what you have so
> far looks good.
Given the last three frames take up half a page and two are inset in the
third, it'd be quite difficult to break up properly and fill in to do the
frame at a time idea, I'm afraid.
> That's a shame to hear - had you tried animated GIF? I
> will see if a few fellows I know who know a little more
> about animation can give you some pointers.
Afraid I havn't considered that at all - doing .gif's involves a completely
different set of mechanics, as with flash everything's broken down like a
jigsaw puzzle when you vectorise a picture, rather than editing frame by
frame. I guess both methods have their advantages/disadvantages, but I just
prefer the style that flash offers more.
> Ah! I was just thinking about those animations then. Been
> tempted to have a go at any more of those? *prods in ribs*
Definitely been tempted, seeing as I've not really anything else to work
with in flash atm. Soon as I clear my email here I'm gonna be going back
over what I've already done and see about starting up again from there. In
comparison to some of the things I had to do for that ZZ/Skunkworks frame,
it should be a nice easy step back in difficulty. ;)
Received on Wed Sep 15 2004 - 19:37:04 CDT