[thelist] hot, throbbing nature

At 10:55 PM 8/6/99, A. Erickson wrote:
> I'm looking for websites that when you look at them the word
> "organic" might come to mind.

Such a thread title...!  :D

I don't know what the plans are there, Amanda, but if you're using Flash
then one way to get away from the clean techno look is to use bitmap fills.
These are 'way underutilized, imho. They can give much richer-looking
motion than what we're used to today.

Details: Import a small seamlessly-tiling GIF, "break apart", then use the
eyedropper to turn this into a fill. You'll have low-bandwidth vector
shapes, but with richer textures. All of the fill transformation tools can
still be used, just as with gradients.

One other technique that comes to mind is animated masking... this can give
organic-looking appearances to Flash work that are difficult to achieve
through the standard ways people work.

(Hmm, another technique is very-nearly transparent overlays... these can
give shadowing and highlight effects and animate independently of the
underlying shape. Gradient-filled overlays give richer tone changes.)

Don't know if any of these are of use there, but they're three organic-y
things that come to mind, if you'll be using Flash on this project there.

jd





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