UNI [SITE + MOTION] – FLASH ANIMATION v4 TESTING
March 13th, 2009 | Richard Almond
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I’ve been giving some further consideration to how a user will interact with the buttons in my Flash animation. Previously I had the window panes simply fade to black on mouse roll-over but feel something more subtle and atmospheric is probably more in keeping with my project. Here Ive been experimenting with some cursor tracking scripts in an attempt to give the effect of clouds or shadows rushing to the cursor when it is pointing over a button. Although pretty effective, Im finding it hard to incorporate this into my main animation as a button roll-over state…
[...] to generate the main part of the animation. I begun by experimenting with cursor-following effects [see previous post]. In this early example I amended a particle swarming effect to create a sort of shadow/cloud [...]