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Flash Tips and Tricks: Motion Tweens and Special EffectsOC Flash - Tuesday, July 7
 
Cynthia Gordon, Owner and Principal of MedAnimations, will give a presentation on motion tweens, using an example from her work in developing patient education animations. Cynthia will explain what motion tweens are, and how to create and use them. Topics will include: - Creating a motion tween to animate symbols
- Difference between a motion tween, a shape tween, and frame by frame animation
- Customizing the motion path
- Using the motion editor to further modify your motion tween animation
Mark Dickinson, Senior Production Artist for Marshall Advertising, Costa Mesa, CA, will demonstrate several effects from Chris Georgenes' book "How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS4", and will also discuss the Custom Easing Tool 1.1 created by Ladizlav Zigo. Mark will show us: - How to use the blur filter to create motion in your animations
- Creating a handwriting effect through masking that makes text "write" itself
- Creating special effects such as a bounce through use of the Custom Easing Tool
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 June 2009 05:18 )
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Creating an Award Winning Documentary FilmGeneral Meeting - Tuesday, July 21 |  |  | | BONNIE & TERRY | ON-SITE FILMING | RICK SHERMAN |
Award-winning documentary OC filmmaker Pamela Peak shares the "insiders' scoop" about the creation of her upcoming WWI documentary Voices of a Never Ending Dawn which will air on PBS. See: www.PolarBearDocumentary.com. Wearing the hats of writer, producer,and director, Peak and her crew shot in sub-zero temperatures and a driving blizzard for 5 days to obtain realistic battle scene re-enactments for this story of her grandfather's service in WWI. Peak will walk us through many aspects of creating the film, including how she and her well-organized crew avoided serious problems that can happen when shooting in zero temperatures with 28 actors and re-enactors. Peak will be joined by special effects editors Bonnie Erdrich and Terry Syndergaard of OCMMA, who will explain their masking techniques in Adobe After Effects used for creating realistic machine gun blasts in a darkened room. They have previously showed us some of their other special effects to create explosions seen in the snowy battle scene re-enactments. Well known composer and sound engineer Rick Sherman will be there to talk about the authentic gun sounds and about other aspects of sound engineering used throughout this very dramatic film. Peak hired six editors in all to work on the film. |
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Keys to Great Audio for Your Great VideoDigital Video SIG- Tuesday, June 23Mike McGready, Creative Director and Owner of Album of Life video studios, will share what he has learned as the keys to achieving great audio. He will bring much of his audio gear to illustrate his points. He also invites you to bring your audio stuff and stories to enlighten the group. |
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