My latest Flash "Campaign Trailer" is up

[Dr Midnight]

With two Flash "trailers" under my belt, I'm getting better... this one has a loading screen and working buttons.
http://www.rigaming.com/kotsq/starwars/opening.htm
Yessir.
"Be... sure... to read... Tom's... Story Hour.
Story Hour?! A crummy commercial??"

 

[GnomeWorks]

Pretty well done, Midnight. The text is a little odd (the justifying was bad for the first line), and it was a little short, but other than that it was good.

 

[DM with a vengence]

Excellent!

As a fellow Flash enthusist, I want to know, how did you do the flying text field like in the movies?

 

[Dr Midnight]

The text is a little odd (the justifying was bad for the first line), and it was a little short, but other than that it was good.

Can't really disagree with any of that. Here are the excuses: Stretching text (or anything) like that can't be done in Flash, so I had to export a text block (that looked good in non-trapezoidal form) to an .ai file and open it in freehand. Then I wriggled it around, and it didn't look quite as good... but I'd spent a good amount of goof-off time at work on this, and had to be done with it. In motion, it didn't look so hot, but like I said... meh.

I want to know, how did you do the flying text field like in the movies?

See the above for the trapezoid how-diddee-doowit. The background is a bitmap I made, and the crawl is just the trapezoid moving to the upper center of the stage, slowly, while shrinking. At the end I scrunched it vertically to give that magical illusion of it disappearing into space beyond.

Yes kids, this computer-aided movie effects work is the wave of the future! Why, any year now we'll see photorealistic film effects rendered entirely in Flash.

Cough.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Grrrrr....I want to play Star Wars d20!!!!!!

 

[Horacio]

As I have already said in the Story Hour forum, amazing trailer, doc!

 

[Dr Midnight]

(bump for the daytime ENboards browsers)