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Jul

10

Animated brush painting

By SiamJai

Have you seen one of those ‘writing by an invisible hand’ animations? I think they’re pretty cool, and I wondered if I could pull off something similar with the method I thought of the other day. A couple hours later, I got the answer:

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animated brush painting a heart

What do you think? I kinda like how it turned out, even though the animation as a whole is a bit rough around the edges. I can easily imagine using the same techniques to do calligraphy with a pen, or even just letters appearing written by themselves. It’s definitely a fun thing to play with, so tune in for more to come! ^_^

Jan

10

Importing Animations to Photoshop using Fireworks

By SiamJai

Despite its popularity in the design world, Photoshop's options for importing animations are rather limited. It cannot import GIF animations and it doesn't recognize frames/states in native Fireworks PNGs. The exercise below lists an automated workflow for transferring these two common animation formats from Fireworks to Photoshop. 

Filmstrip bwteen Fireworks and Photoshop logos

 

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Jan

9

Custom Objects Manual

By SiamJai

Animated PacmanWith the release of Knytt Stories 1.2 , custom objects (CO) have been introduced. This manual explains the basic usage principles of COs; how to create, configure and embed them into the game.

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