Re: List Animation Project - The Specs

[John Croteau]

Hi all,


  Not that I want to be negative but I think we should be more than a

little bit cautious when dealing with Matthew K. Walter.


  His site http://www.walterstudios.com/ consists of one very simple

Flash Splash page with no links to anywhere!!!!! That's May 12, 1998 at

1:24 PM.


Matthew K. Walter wrote:

> Great, looks like we have a good gathering here!

Yes, but you have been on the sidelines, at least so far.


> First off, I would like to thank all of you for wanting to "come and

> play" and those of you that offered hosting and scripting resources.

> We'll take care of the hosting, domain reg, etc., from this end and open

> up special scripting to the group if people want it.


> The gear we are opening up for this little project will give those

> developers who would like access to ASP and Cold Fusion servers the

> ability to play.  The reason for this is one of the tools that we would

> like to open up for people to mess with while they are building their

> animation segments is our work on a "Flash Generator".  We got a little

> miffed when all that Macromedia had was a fill in form, eventhough we

> love "Macro" products and am sure they are very busy, and decided to

> through some time at creating our own.

Sounds like sour grapes to me.


> So, own hopes are whether you are a Flasher that loves heavy code access,

> a top flight animator that kicks or somewhere in the middle, you should

> be able to show off your stuff and have some fun within this little

> project.

Sounds interesting



> We have already got the chat, forum, etc., servers running and are

> offering them for the cause so we'll have a pretty interactive area for

> discussions.  Oh, as far as our uplink, we're sitting on light to the

> backbone...so we're fine.

This sounds great



> Okay, the specs for the animation project are as follows.

> 

> We'll start with a single animation of 15 seconds.  It will be formated

> to go full screen (100% Wide, 100% Tall) on a 800 x 600 17" monitor.  The

> actual pix size will be 750 x 440 taking the dims from IE running on a PC

> with the normal goodies on.


All projects for Flash Central are 1150x620 which is slightl wider in

aspect ratio.

Tutorials, Holiday Flash Projects and the Flash DataBase project are all

being developed at this canvas size to take advantage of the new Load

Movie feature of Flash3. If you go to the Holiday section of

http://www.FlashCentral.com/ with a Flash 3 plug-in/ActiveX control you

will see the real advantage of Load Movie. There are 5 Movies in the

Ring. Press the Press the Cupid Next and previous Buttons at the top to

see how smoothly it works. I just uploaded the latest version last night

and I am finally happy with it.


> The file will be posted on the site and then the next person in line will

> get the file.  They will then use the last 2 to 5 seconds of the

> animation as the beginning of theirs...even if they just morph it, etc.

> Then, when they are done, it will be uploaded onto the site and chained

> off the first one...and passed onto the next person in line.  We don't

> want to create a huge flash doc, so if you are going to use the last 2

> seconds of the animation you would delete the first 13 seconds...you know

> the drill.

> As I said above, you can push anything you'd like for scripting, sound,

> etc., it just needs to work, obviosly.

> Updating your section of the animation will be done via FTP.  You'll

> upload all your stuff and we can test it before we drop it into the live

> project.

Who is we?

 

> The site location will run off www.walterstudios.com.  The forum is going

> up this afternoon, so hope on in and chatter away.  The holding pages for

> the project are going up at the same time.  There will be a listing of

> "Who's Next" that will be generated from the email I have received, so

> first come, first play!

I don't see a link to the forum. I think everyone should show up.


> I think that is a wrap on the this phase.

> I'll build the first section and have that up Friday, so the next person

> can get rolling over the weekend.

I see you go first!!!!!!!!!!

 

> In another direction...  I know that there was talk about a Flash

> Developers Database will "FalshCards"...kinda like biz cards.

That's Flash Business Cards


>  I replied


NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE YOU DIDN'T 

I John Croteau received no Email either directly or through the Flasher

List from this man. The only thing posted to the List from Walter was 3

Posts about color palette problems March 25-27. I searched my archives

which include everything since Jan 1)

(Maybe Walter could supply the date he sent this Email and I'll check

the Archives at the Flasher List)


> to the email about it a while back and haven't heard anything else...so

> we might as well spin that up now for those of you that want to show off

> in a central place while you are waiting for the project to get to you.

> This will consist of each person getting a record in the database that

> will list this bio info...

> Name (First & Last)

> Email Address

> URL (If needed)

> Service Mark (Pitch Line)

> 25 Keywords for searching

> FlashCard (1)


> FlashCard is 200x120 under 15 seconds of straight animation time (looping

> not counted) and can be linked to a single full page animation within the

> site if you wish.  The page may contain anything you would like under a

> meg...for starters.  If you need more space for something REALLY cool,

> let me know.



The Flash Business Card at Flash central will be 350x200 on a 1150x620

page.

We are testing the layout and UA to optimize it for Flash 3's new

features.


We will be announcing details from the Committees we set up late this

week or next on both the Flash Business Card project and the Text

Database projects.



AGAIN where is the link for the forum???????????


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