Correction (was: FLASH: teetering)

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

Well, I'm embarrassed to say I misspoke about the file size of this 

animation. It is indeed a couple of hundred k. What threw me was that the 

movie at hotwired is just a preloader with a Get URL command. Didn't 

discover this until I tried to play the cache movie from my non-Internet 

machine and the Flash GetURL failed. On the bright side, it's less of an 

enigma how such a small movie could get so much mileage!




>At 04:25 PM 2/16/00 , you wrote:

>

>> > http://hotwired.lycos.com/animation/collection/dave_jones/teetering/

>>

>>

>>Cool animation! Anyone with cool sites like this in their bookmarks, 

>>let's see

>>'em. Great inspiration (and diversion). Reminder that it all comes down to

>>content.

>

>

>What is amazing about this .swf is that even with audio effects it is only 

>411 bytes (not kilobytes)  in size. Quite possibly the highest 

>run-time:byte ratio in the history of Flash :-). Dave Jones talks about 

>creating this from a series of storyboarded drawings, but obviously he did 

>a lot of symbol conversion and optimizing that he doesn't mention. A good 

>lesson to us all.

>

>

>

>Marc Hoffman



Marc Hoffman


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Production

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