Globe

Adobe After Effects - Video Editing

Animating Masks:

Lighting Techniques:

-Using 2.5D space
-Practice camera animation

Noise Channel

The Process to create a noise channel:

1. Apply noise filter to several layers in photoshop

2. Edit the layers in ImageReady and create GIF picture:

3. Import GIF picture into Flash which play like animation and then add sounds and interactivity..

i designed the join globe section in flash this section has been designed to look very simple, as shown below there are two different samples. the first one i designed was designed using action script 3 which we experianced many problems with. so i reddesigned the scene using particles for action script 2 which worked very well.
there is also a simple banner animation using motion tween from the time line with the banner scrolling at the bottom.

Flash

i imported all my images in flash into movie clips. i then inserted two arrows on the main stage and applied action script for the user to be able to click on the arrows to navigate around the room.
i then imported both models separately into movie clips. in the lab i then applied invisible buttons with instance names on both models i then applied action script for these buttons so when they are clicked on, the scene would change to the separate models.

Panoramic Video Test

As seen in the vides the quality of this is very poor. To overcome this problem i will try to export still images into flash and animate them using flash.

Using 3d Panoramic Exporter

i rendered the lab as a panoramic exporter as the image illustrates the different stages below.

To do I had to insert a target camera in the scene. i applied a path constraint linking to a circle. When rendering the QuickTime movie I rendered several different sizes. After rendering I found out the result where not clear at all they were very pixilated and blurry. The only good feature was the panorama navigator.
This was a major problem for me and I had to think about different ways to overcome this problem.