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How to create a PreLoader bar in Adobe flash CS6 - Action Script 3.0. Storyboard examples for animations. 20 Free Tutorials to Create Your Own Flash Game. Flash is a very flexible tool for building games that are both entertaining and educational. However, the software itself is a quite tough to learn and extremely hard to master. There are lots of websites providing free and paid tutorials of flash. Here we present you a bunch of free tutorials for game development in flash.

Anyone who knows flash likes to create his own flash game. We believe these are the best free tutorials available in Flash Game Development. 1. This is a "time trial" racing game tutorial. 2. It is a shooting game where player / user have to shoot the flying balloons and gain the points. 3. GuessNext, a simple card game with highscores. 4. Its a series of tutorials on how to develop Space Shooter game. 5.

This tutorial will show you all the basics of creating a platform game, Collisions that automatically move up slopes, Jumping, Moving, Simple Scrolling, Basic AI, and health. Grand Illusions - Articles - Persistence of Vision - Page 1. "Virtually every ... account of the perception of movement in film texts [is] wrong.

Grand Illusions - Articles - Persistence of Vision - Page 1

The impression of movement is not due to persistence of vision. The very persistence with which this 'explanation' has been recited says more about the hermetic and impressionistic world of some film scholarship than it does about the actual mechanisms involved. " Bill Nichols and Susan J. Lederman More than fifteen years ago, a number of writers pointed out, in detailed studies, that the long-quoted mechanism for motion perception in cinema, 'persistence of vision', an effect usually attributed to a 'defect' of the eye, (or in some accounts the 'eye-brain combination'), was an archaic concept long left behind by psychologists and physiologists specialising in perception.

Most film writers were (and still are) unaware of, or unconvinced by, these writings, and continue to write of persistence of vision as being the mechanism by which we see motion pictures. Www.youtube. Www.youtube. Persistence of Vision. Assignment 1 - SBL BTEC Level 3. Compressing animated GIF banners by Grantastic Designs. Home > design tips > banner design > compressing animated GIFs In another article entitled Using GIF Animations in Banner Designs , Grantastic Designs outlined the advantages of using GIF-animated banners to advertise a web site. Since most web publishers expect animated GIF banners to have a file size of less than 12K, this banner design tip addresses how to reduce the file size of your animated-GIF banners.

Colors Dithering Interlacing Number of frames File compression Conclusion GIF is short for Graphics Interchange Format. To help keep file size to a minimum, use only a few high contrasting and complementary web colors because the more colors you use in your banner, the larger the file size will be. In order to display a full-color graphic image on a 256-color monitor, computers must simulate the colors it cannot display.

Using dithered images in an animated GIF banner will increase the file size. Interlacing is storing partial data from a single graphic image in multiple sequences. How animation is used in Education. Photoshop - GIF Optimization Settings Tutorials. [Previous] [Contents] [Next] GIF, which stands for Graphics Interchange Format, is the ideal format for optimizing areas of solid color and lines, like illustrations, logos, cartoons, line art, and text.

Photoshop - GIF Optimization Settings Tutorials

Use the following settings in Photoshop's Save for Web window or ImageReady's Optimize palette to optimize a GIF. File Format Open Photoshop's Save for Web window (File>Save for Web) A or ImageReady's Optimize palette (Window>Optimize) B. Choose GIF from the Format menu, or choose a collection of GIF settings from the Preset menu. Reduction Method When you optimize a file as GIF, all the colors in the original image are converted to a limited palette of colors. How to Optimize and Compress Images Using Adobe Photoshop. Since images can be very large in terms of kilobytes or megabytes, they must be optimized, or compressed, for use in webpages so the webpages will load as quickly as possible.

How to Optimize and Compress Images Using Adobe Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will discuss the significant differences between JPG compression and GIF compression of images. The terms optimize and compress will be used interchangeably throughout this tutorial. Author: Keynote Support Optimization Options The original image to be optimized can be a JPG or a GIF file. JPG Optimization Overview As the JPG format supports 16.8 million colors and GIF supports only 256, most photographs are stored as JPG files and should be compressed with JPG.

During JPG compression, the file will lose some of its original image data, or color purity. If you want to change a file that has already been optimized, always start with the original file!