RE: FLASH: Re: 3D Vector Animation

[Chris Jester (CTS Technical)]

I went to the site you mentioned below and I could not find this 3dProggy

you spoke of. Can you give a little more information as to where exactly it

was found?


Thanx a hole heep,

Jester


> -----Original Message-----

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From: dgarystudiosnetwide [dot] net [SMTP:dgarystudiosnetwide [dot] net]

> Sent:	Wednesday, August 26, 1998 4:25 PM

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To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject:	Re: FLASH: Re: 3D Vector Animation

> 

> 

> 

> bassbin wrote:

> 

> > @ http://www.nrg.be in the "funstuff" section there is a great rotating

> NRG

> > logo. Is this what the whole thread is about? From what I know of 3d and

> > vector, none of these explanations tell much. If it is possible to

> export

> > wireframe renderings as vector, which application on which platform are

> you

> > using to do so? Vertigo 3D for Illustrator is the closest thing I have

> seen

> > to 3D in vector, and it doesnt even animate.

> >

> 

> Hiya bassbin,

> 

> Heres how its done. You must have a 3D proggy to create the model.

> Rhino has a demo I believe you can download at http://www.rhino.com

> You create the model, change it's properties to 100% illumination and

> animate

> it with as few frames as possible still keeping it smooth. export the

> animation

> 

> as sequence in bmp format. Import sequenced bmp into Flash, find a

> balanced

> setting in "bitmap trace"  that will work and trace each bmp. Then you

> have to

> painstankingly use the "gradient" fill tool to give it a "lighted" effect.

> You

> can

> set the model to 0% illumination in the 3Dmodeler, set the lighting and

> re-render it, import those sequences, place them on a lower layer in flash

> for

> tonal and lighting studies and them simply trash when done.

> 

> At NRG, the 3d animated icon looks like alot of animated rotating and so

> on,

> but it really is only about 10 frames rotating 180 degrees and Peter has

> then rotated the icon laterally in Flash3 so it gives it more of an

> "animated"

> effect. On the rollover he could have simply flipped the images vertically

> and then horizonally to give it 180 and keep the file size down.

> 

> NRG is definelty a bad boy site, but I was personally expecting a full

> length

> feature for 450k.

> 

> -DG-

> 

> 

> 

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