Computer animation
Yesterday I have discussed to my blog all about animation and the different approach to it. I said that in our modern day now with this new high technology that surrounds us it is now very easy to create an animation using our personal computers. Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers.
It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Mostly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, though 2D computer graphics are still widely used for stylistic, low bandwidth, and faster real-time rendering needs. The target of the animation is the computer itself or it is used in web designing, but sometimes the target is another medium, such as film. It is also referred to as CGI (Computer-generated imagery or computer-generated imaging), especially when used in films.
Macromedia flash is one of the software that is used to create animation. I particularly used it to create my animation but it is just my hobby. And sometimes I used it to create my flash presentation during reporting in our class. I choose macromedia flash because it is user friendly and so much fun when you created a cool animation.
Below is an image of the environment of the latest version of flash the macromedia flash CS3.
You can see there in the upper portion of the window the timeline. It is used to lay out the sequence of your movie.
The Tools palette is located at the upper left corner of the screen, which contains tools you can use to create or modify graphics and text. You select a tool by clicking on it. Tool modifiers for the selected tool display below the Tools palette. You use modifiers to set tool options.
The Stage displays in the center of the screen. It is where you create your movie.
If you want to learn more about Macromedia flash CS3 there are lots of tutorials that you can find in the internet. One of them is this site.
Animation
This is an art of creating movie clips or an illusion of movement. It is done when a display of sequence image 2D or 3D artwork or model that makes an optical illusion of motion. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although several other forms of presenting animation also exist. This method is used in all our favorite TV shows such as cartoons. Those moving characters that we see is just an image arranged in a sequential manner and making it move by viewing those numerous files of image one by one but it is just faster than we ever imagine in order to see an illusion of the particular object moving. There are devices that was invented during the 1800’s that can produced movement like what I said earlier to view the image as if it was moving. There are a lot of different kinds of animation. One of them is flip book. It is a book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next, so that when the pages are turned rapidly, the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change. Flip books are often illustrated books for children, but may also be geared towards adults and employ a series of photographs rather than drawings. It is the primitive way of doing animation.
However, in this modern day now, we can create animation using our personal computers. For instance we could use the application macromedia flash in any version to create animation. Creating animation in flash is mostly used in websites intro or header. Like in this particular website.
Web designing
Every business in the world needs to be advertised or promote. Many kinds of advertisement or promoting activities are done by those companies to accomplish their goal. The goal is to increase the sales and profit.
One of the best medium of advertising is through World Wide Web. Because a lot of people can now access information worldwide through Internet, it is the best known as advertising media.
Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media content delivery via Internet in the form of technologies (such as markup languages) suitable for interpretation and display by a web browser or other web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs). According to Wikipedia.com.
Through the creation of website the company can now be known in the whole world. Apart from that it is not just end to creating a website. It just started there, but the next thing to do is to maintain your website and make it rank high in those search engines. The reason for this is that if the higher the rank is the higher possibility that more visitors can view your site. In order to do that, you have to make some strategies on how to optimize your site and to make it attractive to the visitors.
The best thing to do is to make the design of your website attractive using Macromedia Flash. I must tell you it is not just attractive but it is really cool. You can create animation in just a simple command. But not all command in Flash is simple the more complex your animation the more complex also the code. But there’s a reminder do not make your site over in images because if the user is using a dial-up connection it will load up slower thus making the visitor to cancel viewing your page.
