[thelist] hot, throbbing nature

Hi, John. Actually, I am hoping to use Flash and am very interested in making
it look rich and soft (without killing bandwidth, of course). I like your ideas
here and will play with a few of them when I get the chance. I didn't know
about bitmap fills but then I'm still somewhat of a novice.

Thanks for your ideas and advice!

- amanda

John Dowdell wrote:

> 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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