Image Question

[pagedown]

I'm doing this project for this new company that didn't have a logo or anything, Since there name was Nfinite Possibilities I thought the "Infinity" symbol would do since both are derived from the other Infinity and Infinite I wanted the Symbol to Spin or rotate in sequence or fade in or out. What would be the best way to do this "Flash"? I'm trying to Master that now. I've attached the file for suggestions. I didn't want to do to much since their budget was small,

13489-N_F copy.jpg

[Michael]

Re: Image Question

pagedown,
here's one. feel free to discard. I'm still learning this stuff.

13498-Movie1.swf

[Corey]

Re: Image Question

Nice job Michael.

Don't forget that the infinity symbol is a 3d thing if you're going to rotate. You can easily create that in a 3d modeller by twisting a torus.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[pagedown]

Re: Image Question

Michael,

I second Corey's input, Great Job! Looking for something like that. Would buttons and page jumps work the same? Corey program for 3d, any suggestions? 3dmax? etc...

[AGRO]

Re: Image Question

here is a quick one I made in Swift3d. If you want it let me know what color and size.

13509-infinity.zip

[pagedown]

Re: Image Question

AGRO,

That's Sweet.... The symbol orig in photoshop is Tahoma font(reg), at 300pt black(0D0C0C or 13 12 12) it will be on 630 x 425 template... The spin you have is a little fast, so if it can be slow spin?

[AGRO]

Re: Image Question

I have a dumb question. You said the type font was Tahoma, .......what key on the keyboard is that? What format do you want it at? Swift outputs the .swf format. The output is a number of .bmp's so you get the quality. If you wanted the vector format you would lose some of the quality but the file size would be smaller.

Am I getting closer to what you are looking for? HERE

[pagedown]

Re: Image Question

Yeah Man.. that's it. Quality is the way, i don't know what key corresponds with Tahoma, in photoshop i just select that type font...

[Support]

Re: Image Question

Nice job AGRO.

DOn't forget an infinity symbol is like a Mobeus Strip, i.e.:

http://www-vrl.umich.edu/project2/moebius/

As for the 3D I have no reccomendation. But all a mobeus strip is, is a torus (donut shape) which has been twisted in it's center... Easy to model in any good app, 3D max would be fine...

[AGRO]

Re: Image Question

Support great point!! Thanks.

How does this look?? (attachment)

.jpg]13515-tortus[2].jpg

[AGRO]

Re: Image Question

or.......

.jpg]13517-tortus[3].jpg

[Corey]

Re: Image Question

Oops that was me, I was logged in as Support. Yeah, that's exactly what I meant AGRO... You nailed it. I like the second one.

Here's the thing though, for me personally I don't dig the rotation nor the fading. I think the best would be to render that thing static in both a mesh and a shiny metal and then animate it such that it starts as a mesh and then turns into metal. Maybe a spreading effect like you see on car commercials where the car is made of mesh and then a wave of shiny metal morphs over it...

After the morph I would keep it static. So in other words on page load you would see a mesh, the mesh would wave morph into metal, and then it would just sit there like that.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Corey]

Re: Image Question

BTW to simulate a wave morph do this:

1. Render same sized images of the strip, one in mesh, one in metal.

2. Place them in a video editor such as adobe premiere with the metal one on top.

3. Using Flash, commottion pro, or even photoshop create a mask movie. This is a movie which has a clear alpha key simulating the area of the desired morph. I usually do this be shape tweening in flash and exporting as AVI.

4. Use your mask movie to mask your metal layer. Voila.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[pagedown]

Re: Image Question

Yeah the second one is BANGING! Corey those possibilities sound good, gosh man i can't wait til i'm as awesome. I bet the ending results are banging too...

[AGRO]

Re: Image Question

Kinda like this???

Here

Or Here