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yes, that is very cool indeed


this one's certainly very well done

however, there's also much more work than simply moving from one still image to the next still image... as I was trying to communicate when we were critiqueing our process, the finished piece can be muh better if more is done to work the transitions.




thanks Persist

It was sweet, but the transitions seemed ... I don't know, not exactly natural and seamless.

that was amazing... I love the twist they've put on the usual transitions - e.g. making it rotate at points, and also having those extra moving things on there, the windmill, hot air balloon, etc all added to it.
You'd really need a shit hot team to build that sort of thing - given enough time I could pull off the Flash coding I reckon... but communicate to an artist what was needed? Tough.

Or you could just be Persist and do it all yourself

the minor details in persist's link are brilliant. didn't notice most of them the first time through, forced me to watch it again.

and again...

the diff scenes were great as well as those "extra's" but I was a bit disappointed that there were so many transitions using the same "hole in the rock" scenario to change.

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That is awesome. A lot of work has gone into that!

Originally posted by: tenPlus
the diff scenes were great as well as those "extra's" but I was a bit disappointed that there were so many transitions using the same "hole in the rock" scenario to change.

'swut I'm saying.

I'm down with a collab.

I suggest maybe designing the tiles larger, for the transition area detail, then reducing them down for the main ring. That way the next person gets a larger ring to fit his smaller one into.

Does that make sense??

Reading the thread....uh, dur Jeremy...

Originally posted by: DjUtopia
Does that make sense??

yes, it does make more sense than it might appear considering the response


MC might have another view on this altogether, but as I recall our collaboration, although we had used a rather large transition area—somehow, much of that transition area is obliterated as you go back and forth...

I created this page to show each of our individual keyframes... in comparasin to the final movie,



perhaps the key to being successful... or more-successful... next time
would be to create a complete animation template which works—in its simplest form—like a series of numbered slides representing the keyframes once the keyframe mockups are successfully exported to a movie, player etc... then and only then let the participants download and fill their template...
having a facilitator of the animation plug in the work of each participant then release the next template piece might also be very helpful