"Invisible Children" - Great Project, Great Flash

Soniclight wrote on 1/25/2008, 7:57 AM
Great not only for the way the young film-makers used the craft and what unfolded from their trip. to Africa.
Not all kids are uploading junk to YouTube.

But in addition, as a visual artist/video maker-editor, I'm also blow away by the online "panorama" Flash presentation:

-- Once you are at the page and it's loaded, just pass your cursor slowly over the image and you'll notice layers and embedded 3-D clips that react to the touch. Lot of subtle stuff going on.

Does anyone here have a clue as to how this was done? Several short clips, yes, but how was this assembled in such a three dimensionally "alive", floating-in-air way?

I"d love to be able to pull of something like this one day.

Other parts of the site have likewise unique uses of Flash in similar floating style.



Comments

farss wrote on 1/25/2008, 2:10 PM
As far as I know Flash can composite in the player. It's a whole interactive world that's rarely used. And then something like that is created and then you realise how powerful it could be. And difficult to pull off.

Bob.
Soniclight wrote on 1/25/2008, 8:33 PM
I'm sure it took a lot of time and thought to pull off. Truth is, I don't need such a thing at this stage of my creative unfoldment (not enough content, etc.).

But it is nonetheless inspiring as to what is possible. Technology has its drawbacks, but it certainly can be 'wow' too.
When talent and style are applied.
deusx wrote on 1/25/2008, 9:09 PM
>>Does anyone here have a clue as to how this was done? Several short clips, yes, but how was this assembled in such a three <<

It's pretty easy. Flash has layers just like photoshop. If you import your animation into flash as transparent .png sequence ( or .tiff ) you can layer all you want, and it can be much more animated than this.

You can even have full video floating around within some environment ike this.
Soniclight wrote on 1/26/2008, 8:25 AM
Deusx,

Considering my limited budget = I can't currently afford a decent Flash editor, not to mention one capable of such layers, I'll have wait on this. But when the time rolls in, maybe later this year....

What kind of reasonably priced Flash editor could handle making something like that?
By reasonable, I mean under USD $100 preferably.
deusx wrote on 1/26/2008, 7:44 PM
I'm pretty sure you'd need flash. I've been using it since version 1, so I've never used anything else that outputs .swf files, and I don't even know what the current price of flash is ( always buy upgrades ).

I am pretty sure you should still be able to download a 30 day trial version, and that's plenty of time to learn something like this. There is some basic scripting required to get images/clips to move in relation to the cursor, and to trigger movement of each sequence of images when cursor is over them.