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Posted by shivnikapoor in Jun 15, 2009, under Flash Animations
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Add Audio to your Web Site Using Flash for Increased Traffic
Posted by shivnikapoor in Jun 03, 2009, under Flash Animations
Sites which are rich in audio are currently taking the web by storm. It has been noticed that by adding audio to your site, you can increase sales as well as subscription rates significantly. That’s the reason, a majority of web site owners are now rushing towards incorporating audio to their sites and most of them are doing that using Flash Animations. During Flash web site design, Flash designers can help you add audio to your site the way you want it to be.
By adding audio to your site, you would not only be able to make your web pages come alive, but also give a different feel to it. This effort will surely allow your visitors to interact freely within your site as a result of what sales and newsletter subscription rates can just go higher. Flash designs for adding audio button can also be very helpful to those who have always been looking for a viable option to make their sites customized. Be it site owners or online marketers all are taking advantage of the facility to its fullest. Flash audio as well as video streaming have really been the most sought after strategies of traffic pulling thanks to the advancement in the field of web site Flash Design Training.
With technology getting better and superior each passing day, with Flash voice buttons it has also become possible now to record audio from your microphone and put it into an audio button. Flash web design professionals are now using Flash voice buttons on web pages, email, auction listings, e-books, game-demos etc.
The power of voice has always been bigger than any written text. It connects with people better than anything else and helps you communicate more productively. And if you could integrate both on your site, results are sure to be impressive enough!
10 Stupid Flash Animations Tricks
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 22, 2009, under Flash Animations
We’ve all seen them: web pages that, no matter if they use HTML, DHTML, Javascript, Flash, or some other medium, have some of the most visually obnoxious or functionally irritating effects that we’ve ever seen. We may even be guilty of creating those sort of websites, in our first experiments with understanding what we can and cannot do with our development medium of choice.
Just because we can do it, however, doesn’t mean that we should–and here you’ll find a list of ten Stupid Flash Tricks that you can create in Flash, but that you may want to avoid unless you enjoy driving your viewers away.
1. Blinking Text
The first time you learn how to make text blink, you may point and giggle and think “That’s cool, look what I did!” By the tenth time that your viewers have seen blinking text overused in one website or another, however, their first instinct will be to close the site without even reading the obnoxiously flashing, eye-searing text. You may think that making your text blink draws focus to your content–but all that it draws focus to is how annoying blinking text is. Avoid this unless you want your website or Flash Animations to look like it was culled from Crazy Al’s Overstock Mattress Warehouse.
2. Rainbow Gradients
To this day I wonder why Macromedia even bothered including a preset rainbow gradient, especially such a bright one. If you’re really determined to use every shade in the ROYGBIV spectrum, find a way to incorporate them tastefully; don’t just slap a rainbow gradient on something and think it looks cool. There are places for rainbows, sure–like in an actual rainbow. But if you’re just using one because you can it and it has no real use in your scene or in your Design Tutorials elements, try something a bit more subtle, and a bit less blinding.
3. Cycling Background Colors
In my opinion, there is no better way to ensure that 90% of viewers will close your site/Flash movie within the first five seconds. Pick a Free Backgrounds color. Stick with it. Cycling through background colors, whether they shift sharply or fade from one to the other, is a good way to either a.) give your readers a seizure, or b.) make it impossible for them to focus on the text or objects laid over that background.
4. Constantly Looping Sound That Can’t be Turned Off
Embedded sound in Flash is basically the mutated, inflated younger sibling of the age-old and hated embedded MIDI background music. Flash has sound for a reason–for sound effects, for playable music files, for any number of myriad uses…but I’d bet money that Macromedia never intended for it to be used to drive people crazy with repetitive, looping, loud, irritating audio that can’t be shut off without either turning off the volume on your computer or else just closing the page entirely. If you want to add background music to your movie, especially if it’s fitting, go ahead. But make sure it’s either quiet and unobtrusive, or else that you include a control to turn it off. There are few things more painful than loading a page only to suddenly be drive-by Free Sounds blasted by screaming audio at maximum volume.
5. Obnoxiously Persistent Animations
This is another “next-generation” version of an old annoying-but-persistent website no-no: the dancing, non-stop, ever-present GIF animations, now all grown-up and ten times as tenacious when implemented through Flash. Your web page or Flash Animations does not need constantly dancing doo-dads, especially if you’ve got actual relevant content that you want people to read. It’s cute? That’s nice. It’d be a lot cuter if you set it to stop after one or two cycles instead of leaving it to loop constantly as a distracting and irritating little aside that isn’t at all necessary.
Do You Flash Animations Lite?
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 19, 2009, under Flash Animations
You’ve got Flash on your website, on your desktop–but do you have it on your cell phone?
Adobe Macromedia’s Flash Lite is just that–Flash for your cell phone or other handheld device. It’s been big in Japan for quite a while, and it’s caught on quickly in the U.S., spreading worldwide. The first version of Flash Lite, version 1.1, allowed for rich content delivery–but the latest version, Flash Lite 2, expands that to support Action Scripting 2.0 and Flash Player 7. Flash Lite is used to deliver highly customizable user interfaces and a greater depth of content.
So what’s the difference between my old cell phone interface and a Flash Lite interface?
Remember the first web pages? White pages with Times New Roman text in various colors, and the coolest thing you could do with it was make it blink? A few grainy images here and there, tossed about discordantly–no style, no synchronicity. Then came DHTML, CSS, and more-along with people with better Logo Design sense. Included in that “more” was Flash, which helped upgrade the web to a more visually appealing place with a unique, more intuitive method of content delivery and navigation. Flash Lite does the same for your cell phone.
So…does my cell phone/mobile device support Flash Lite?
It’s quite possible that it does; you may already be using it and not even knows it. Check out the list of supported devices here; you can also download the Flash Lite 2 Player. There’s also a Flash Lite Player for Developers, with multiple links to purchase based on your location.
I want to create my own mobile phone applications for Flash Lite.
If you’ve already got Flash Animations Professional 8, then you’re lucky; the latest version of Flash comes with the templates and design guidelines you’ll need, as well as a Flash Lite emulator. If not, you may want to look into getting it.
Tips for the Freelance Animator: Balancing Your Work and Home Life
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 18, 2009, under Flash Animations
When you work from home, sometimes it’s very hard to separate “at work” from “at home” – meaning that you also don’t get the relief of “going home from work”. In fact, work may well start to intrude on your personal life, until it feels like you’re always at the computer, always working, rarely stopping for anything other than sleep.
This may work well for you for a short period, especially if you love what you do – but if your freelance work is starting to affect your personal life and you just can’t seem to get a handle on your time, you may want to try to a few of these tips. I had to start following my own advice not too long ago, when my partner remarked that I never eat breakfast away from the computer anymore. My family and friends were both grateful when I introduced more balance between work and home, and my productivity when I did schedule time for work increased exponentially.
Keep your workspace separate from the rest of your home.
It’s temping – especially if you have a laptop – to work out on the patio, on the sofa, even in bed. Sometimes I work from my balcony for a break, especially on a clear, cool early morning. The key is not to make a habit of it, or the entire world will become your office and you won’t ever be able to leave work. Convenience can at times become a hindrance, and add to personal stress when you can’t ever leave the “at work” mentality. It becomes hard to know when to stop.
Keep a separate room for Design Training, or even just a niche in one corner of a room, as your work area; keep your computer there, your art supplies, and any other work-related materials. When you leave your work area, leave your supplies there. If you use your computer for entertainment as well, then keep your fun time strictly separated from your work time.
Mark your deadlines, and plan for them.
Very few of your clients will say “oh, just get it to me when you’re done, no hurry”. Most will give you a set date to deliver the goods, and it’s either too close for comfort or so far away that you’ll grow lax and forgetful until the last minute. (Personal experience talking? Never!)
To make sure that you’re not scrambling to finish a project of Flash Animations in marathon 24-hour stints without sleep or any nourishment beyond coffee, make sure to mark your deadlines on a project calendar, plan out how many total hours it will take to complete each project, and budget a certain number of hours a day to work on each project. Prioritize; adjust your schedule blocks based on the deadline proximity.
Keep a schedule, and adhere to it.
When you work a nine-to-five, there’s no doubt about when work starts and ends; you go into the office at a certain time, leave at a certain time, and the rest of the day and night are yours. When you work at home, it’s not so clean-cut. You aren’t punching a time-clock; it’s up to you to decide when you work and when you don’t in order to complete your projects on time.
If your laundry’s piling up, the dog’s food bowl is empty, the cat’s litterbox is far too full, and there’s a mountain of dishes taking over the kitchen, then you’re not managing your time well enough. If you don’t treat your freelance work like an office job and set yourself a starting and ending time, then you’ll end up frittering away useless idle minutes over the course of the day in random spurts of activity – when you could be using that time for dozens of other activities (such as washing those stinky socks).
Remind yourself that every day you should start at a certain time and finish your planned workload at a certain time, with scheduled breaks. Quitting time is quitting time, no questions asked; you’ll produce better work if you stop and get some rest only to start fresh the next day.
2008 Flash Animators’ New Year’s Resolutions
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 12, 2009, under Flash Animations
What will you strive to achieve in 2008? Here are just a few of my goals as an animator, to help improve my skills and expand my knowledge in the New Year. Breaking your New Year’s resolutions is as much of a tradition as making them, but I’m going to give it a shot anyway. What are your resolutions for 2008?
Resolution No. 1: Finally upgrade to the latest version of Flash Animations.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been stalling on upgrading to Adobe Flash CS3. I want to, but lately I haven’t really worked on any projects where the enhancements offered by the newest Flash would really benefit me, and I’ve been eyeing the price tag rather dubiously. I’d like to start doing lessons on version CS3, though, so it’s time that I bite the bullet and take that jump. I’ll be glad that I did.
Resolution No. 2: Expand network contacts.
You can never know enough people when you’re an animator, whether freelance or otherwise. You never know when someone that you met at siggraph may do you a good turn later when you’re looking for work, or when the person who struck up a conversation in the checkout queue at the market might turn into your latest freelance customer. Keep business cards with you at all times, and resolve to branch out and expand your network of contacts.
Resolution No. 3: Take a class.
That’s right, take a class - any class. You’ll find inspiration for Flash Animations in surprising places; you might take a class on German language and suddenly be inspired to create an animation on the history of bratwurst. …all right, that may be a cheesy example, but you get the idea. Learning is often a source of inspiration, and if you don’t want to take a random class, take an art class - sculpture, painting, sketching. Improving your artistic skills in one area will always reflect in improvements in your animation skills, and may inspire a fresh new shift in your style.
Why Do I Need an Flash Animation Website?
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 08, 2009, under Flash Animations
You’re an artist, an animator, a visionary - but what you may not be is a web designer, web developer, or web anything. So you don’t need a website, right?
Wrong.
In the age of information technology, everyone has a website. Great Uncle Stu is on MySpace; Grandma Molly has a veritable online empire selling her special recipe chocolate chip cookies through her own internet store. Not only that, but Flash Animation sites like JibJab, Weebl’s Stuff, and New Grounds dominate the web with fresh, fun content that you can only find online. The internet is a whole new stomping ground where everything goes, and anyone can see you - anyone. There are numerous reasons to take advantage of that:
Having a website allows you to reach a broader audience.
You may be in Cleveland, but your animations can reach people in Pago Pago in seconds, when they might not have had any idea who you are otherwise. Optimize your website properly, make sure it’s keyed towards search engines, and you could find yourself climbing the Google charts as more and more people worldwide find what you have to offer.
A broader audience means a broader client base.
There was a time when networking was limited to whom we could call and whom we could meet face to face, and beyond word of mouth and paid print and media advertising, those were the only ways to obtain new clients. Even then we were often restricted to the local market, and couldn’t branch out very far due to the expense of getting our message into the next town, state, or country. The internet makes your animation business available globally, and when you can reach out and touch someone across the sea, you can find yourself raking in not just dollars, but pesos, euros, yen, and anything else you can think of.
Websites can hold more content than portfolios or demo reels.
How many times have you spent hours agonizing over just which pieces are good enough to take up limited time and limited space in your demo reel and portfolio? No longer. Your online web host may limit your space, sure, but you’ve still got a lot more room to work with online. While I wouldn’t advise putting your entire collection up if some of your older work just isn’t up to snuff, you can still add dozens of quality images that wouldn’t fit in your portfolio, and include animation clips that didn’t make it to the demo reel or offer full-length viewings of the animations that were cut to fit the reel’s time span. You can also include other pages with more information about yourself and the history behind each project, which you wouldn’t be able to fit on your resume or leave-behinds.
People are more likely to visit a website again than try to view your print or reel content again.
Portfolios and demo reels require a lot of effort to update, and generally aren’t done so often - and few people would make the physical effort to view yours again when you do change them. Users love checking their favorite websites for updates, though, and are far more likely to become repeat visitors who surf over to catch a look at the latest animation you’ve uploaded.
Websites allow you to build a sense of community.
If you maintain a blog with comments allowed or install a forum, you can not only allow people to view your work, but also allow people to offer feedback and share their own projects, building a sense of community that will lure even more to your site.
Your web presence allows a single universal point of contact.
Although unlimited long distance plans and cell phones are making non-local calls less of a problem, there are still some who’d rather e-mail rather than call outside their area code to make contact with an animator they’re considering hiring - and don’t forget those international viewers and high international calling fees. Your website is a one-stop portal that anchors you in one place, easily accessible no matter where your users and potential clients are, with contact information always up front and ready.
Websites are cheaper than portfolios and demo reels.
My portfolio cost over $300 to put together, after paying for the leather-bound portfolio itself and paying for high-quality glossy prints at Kinko’s - and I spend about another $25 on new prints when I update it. My demo reel averages about $50 every time I go through a periodic edit and have to produce a new batch of video tapes, CDs, and DVDs. The expenses add up into the triple digits over the course of a year.
My website Design Tutorials cost $4.95 per year to register the domain, and $4.99 a month for 10GB of space and unlimited bandwidth with unlimited potential. That alone speaks for itself; my website is an online version of my portfolio that costs me nothing extra to update, allows me to display an exponentially broader range of work, and costs me less than a day’s lunch on a monthly basis. It’s worth the few extra dollars for the amount of freelance animation and design business that I gain from having a web presence.
Have you stopped wondering why you should have an animation website and started wondering how, instead? Then wonder no longer; head over to Jennifer Kyrnin’s Web Design Training, where she has everything you need to get you started on creating your own basic website. You don’t have to be a master designer to create your own online presence, and make your animations accessible to the world wide web.
Incorporating Google Adsense into Flash Animations Web Pages
Posted by shivnikapoor in May 04, 2009, under Flash Animations
Web Design Training today tends to combine multiple platforms and technologies to deliver hybrid functionalities that provide a rich and personalized interactive experience. From saving user information to animated interfaces, it’s possible to merge Flash with any number of web languages and platforms to customize just how your data reaches your target audience within your user interface, and what the audience returns to you.
Content delivery is a rich and multivaried thing - even when that content includes ads. Google Adsense is a popular way to turn even the most casual website into a source of income, whether minor or major, and many people try to incorporate Google ads into the layout of their site. That can create a bit of difficulty in a primarily Flash-based site Design Tutorials, where the majority of visual elements are objects within an SWF file rather than coded in HTML, XML, ASP, or any other number of languages. Google Ads are generally text-based, or dynamically pulled images–but they rely on code embedded in your page. Embedding HTML inside Flash can be difficult, problematic, and an all-around PITA - but there’s an easy way to avoid it.
The simple answer is to design around it.
Not quite sure what I mean? It’s easy.
It’s a common misconception that when you design a website in Flash Animations, the entire thing must be contained within a single SWF. Not so; you can create multiple SWF files and embed them into an HTML page (even better, embed them into a dynamic template using PHP or ASP to make updating the design and content easier across the entire site), using CSS or tables to position the various elements to create your overall graphical design. This gives you the freedom to embed the Google code wherever you wish, because you aren’t bound by what you can do in Action Scripting alone. With the right design sense and an understanding of how various elements fit together, you can use basic HTML to seamlessly integrate Google Adsense content into your Flash-based site.
The key is to remember that your Flash content is a component of your website, and not the website in its entirety. When you view your Flash-based Design Tutorials as interlocking pieces rather than attempting to lock all functionality and form within an SWF, you’ll find a whole new world of flexibility in design and interactivity opening to you.
Voice Acting for Flash Animations
Posted by shivnikapoor in Apr 30, 2009, under Flash Animations
Most people pay so much attention to the fictional characters in their cartoons and video games that they don’t stop to think of the voices behind them - or stop to realize that the voices don’t actually belong to the characters, but to actors who lend life and personality to otherwise silent moving images.
How does voice acting relate to Flash Animations?
It’s simple; the voices of the characters don’t just magically add themselves once the drawings are done. Those voices come from real people. Without voice acting, we’d still have silent animated films, or just flat lines read off by disinterested studio animators without the training or talent to add the right inflection and personality to the lines.
How is voice acting done?
A group of actors - some professional voice actors, some noted celebrities - gather in a recording studio and, with their scripts in hand and parts ready, act out the parts of their characters. It requires just as much skill as acting a part in a film, for the actors still have to make the emotions portrayed by the characters’ voices believable. It can require multiple takes when actors flub or miss their lines, and sometimes listening to recorded outtakes can be hilarious. The audio recorded is synched with the animation and with the musical tracks to bring the entire piece together.
What about online Flash Animations?
You’d be surprised how many non-studio animations still go to the trouble of using a recording studio and formal recording processes, but as home computer technology advances, it’s not always necessary. Home recording equipment can let you set up a home-brewed recording studio pretty easily, but it’s still a matter of recording good audio / finding good voice talent. It’s not as easy as some people make it sound. However, if you need voices for your animated characters, there’s nothing that says you can’t hook up your own microphone and record your own audio.
A New Career for a New Year
Posted by shivnikapoor in Apr 29, 2009, under Flash Animations
With a new year on the way, many often start to think about a new career, as well–especially with the current economy forcing many to take jobs they aren’t happy with just to get by. Maybe you’re a grad coming out of school and looking to start fresh in your new career field; maybe you’re a veteran animator looking for a change, or maybe you’re even working in an entirely different field and hoping to make a switch. There’s no better time than now, but before you get started on your path to a career in animation, here are a few things you may want to know.
Know what steps to take in order to become an Flash Animations Designer
This includes your education, your chosen specialty, and the field that you want to work in.
Decide if you want to work for others, or freelance.
Freelancing works well for some, especially if you’re a jack-of-all-trades who likes to work independently and likes to change projects and programs often. Building job security is very difficult, though, and you always run the risk of blurring the line between work and home – and for many, it’s more lucrative (and beneficial) to seek regular employment rather than contract work.
Create your portfolio, or refresh your existing one.
If you’re out beating the street looking for a job, you’ll need something that you can tuck under your arm and tote along with you – something readily viewable that doesn’t require the aid of a VHS, DVD, or CD player in order to display your talent. Even if you’ve got a portfolio, check through it and see if there are any pieces that are rather dated and that you can replace with fresh new material to show how your skill has evolved since the portfolio was first created.
Create your demo reel, or update your existing one.
Portfolios are your first impression, but demo reels are your lasting one – an audiovisual business card that lets you leave your mark. Demo reels are essential for displaying your animation work in its intended medium, rather than as motionless, flat samples.
Know where to search, and how to do it.
This includes looking for your niche – finding that job you were looking for somewhere that no one else would think of looking. Even the furniture store down the street needs an Flash Animations for their commercials; the LCD screen specialists may have a Flash website that they need you to maintain full-time. So get out there, spruce up your resume and yourself, and get yourself an interview – and then get yourself a new job.
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