how does he do this?

[Doe2322]

I came across this site, and was wondering how he programmed the woman to dance and what is she made of? Is that like a video turned vector? And if so, what program turns video footage into vector.....animations, art??? http://www.designbytony.com/main.html
[Edited by chewman2k on 10-13-2001 at 05:00 AM]

[kel]

You can export video as .jps from Premiere. Then Import into Flash. This guy has adjusted them in Photoshop to give it that litho look.

Did anyone click the message from Toney button? How funny is that??!!

[Doe2322]

I couldn't find .jps file extension in Premiere??

[kel]

Maybe it’s After Effects then.
I’m quite hung-over and finding it hard to do anything that involves movement of my body.

I can hear my eyelids when I blink.

[Doe2322]

...must have been a good night

[kel]

I can’t remember..... Hope so

[aversion]

most video programs like premiere will let you adjust the levels of a movie so you get this effect, it would be extremely time consuming indeed if you had to do this frame by frame.

you can make it easy for yourself by filming your subject against a contrasting bg, like a white sheet.

once you have adjusted the levels in your vid app export the clip as a series of jpgs and import them into flash, they will appear as a series of keyframes.

eliminate any duplicates and tidy up the images and trace them into vectors with flash's trace vector tool. Tidy them up again, it's easy to get rid of extraneaous bits of a vector and animate...

here's one i just did, it took me about twenty minutes once it was in the video app (i used virtual dub), you can get a better quality than this if you take a bit longer

http://www.rigent.com/projects/greymatters/goto.htm

[Doe2322]

Cool! Thanks very much!

[aversion]

no worries, get virtual dub here, http://www.baeckerei-schorner.de/vdub it's free and very simple if you're not used to using premiere etc.

[aphro@urbantakeover.co.uk]

Come on....
This site is quite nice but after clicking a 'message from tony', you just click out the window thinking Tony is a bit of a peen! The dancing girl is a piece of cake. But he has done it by import and export, he would have had a much better result if he had actually traced and gone into each individual frame and got rid lots of the many useless vectors that happen in these style imports. Very time consuming but there really is no substitute. It could mean the difference in 1500 curves compared to 150, and when multiplied by 50 frames or so, easts up load time and flash's speed.

[badboy_69]

Pretty nice animation on the girl.
Very nice detail.
Hey have you seen one of the sites he put together??

I thought is was done well.

http://www.joybauerstudios.com

I got this site from his whats new at

http://www.designbytony.com/new_design.htm

I hope I could do that girl some day and not in the way you may think.

Cheers all.

The Badboy

[Linger165]

I like the woman dancing, but I have seen it many times before. For the site in a whole, it seems like another Eric Jordan spoof, even though it sucks.

[badboy_69]

Well the site may not be all that good but I did like the site they hey made for that photographer.

http://www.joybauerstudios.com



Cheers.

The Badboy

[badboy_69]

Hey Linger165, just checked out your site.

Not Bad.

Just thought I would tell you that.

The Badboy.

Cheers.

[dmachado]

As a matter of fact, on MY site and footer.

[Eyenovation]

Nice girl dancing.

[hlab]

Pro:
...I belive in freespeech, but...

Cons:
(Sometimes its very difficult to be objective.)

If this was his 'personal site' I say 'right on', do your thing. But this guy, I feel, stepped over the line when he tries to come off as a webshop/design studio.
Is it that difficult to realize that one has no talent and has NO business offering 'creative' services to consumers?? I mean, it's ok to start off as a beginner (everyone has to start somewhere) and work hard to improve your skills. But one, like this guy, has to realize that he has NO talent and NO business doing what he does, he's not adding anything to our visual community, rather producing more visual garbage.

For the love of God, please stop this guy from doing another project for someone else!

[kel]

Ohhhhh come on hlab, don’t hold back, Tell us what you really think





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[aversion]

Originally posted by Eyenovation
Nice girl dancing.

yeah but i've seen it a few times, it's open source and uncredited...

[badboy_69]

So I have no talent, interesting, so why am I making money when most people are layed off at this time.

Why is it that I can take a site that was making no money, come in redesign it, market it and now it is making money, infact it had an article published about it.

Go figure with a "guy" like me that has no busines doing what I am doing.

Intersting.

The Badboy