After Effects 3D Stroke in Flash 8

Here’s another demo of an FLV file with embedded alpha channel. This one uses the 3D Stroke effect for After Effects made by Trapcode. This is great because all of the cool plugin effects can now be used in your Flash movies!

More After Effects & Flash 8 Fun

The buttons below set off an external VP6 FLV when rolled over. You can change the blend mode of the video using the numeric stepper. Would be a cool effect for a movie site or something.

Flash 8 Experiment Gone Wrong (Sort of)

So I was trying a new experiment using some random motion on 4 orange balls. Then I started playing with the BitmapData stuff and it got all jacked up. I really have no idea what I’m doing with that class at the moment. Anyone have some good documentation on it? So below is what was there when I exported. The balls have these white panels which turn from white to red over time. What the hell? Its kind of a cool effect actually as it makes some beautiful gradients.

Flash 8 Scrolling Image Blur

Below is my latest Flash 8 experiment. It’s a simple horizontal scrolling thingy with a bunch of images. The faster you move it, the more blurry it gets. Flash 8 player required.

Flash 8 floodFill Experiment

This is an experiment in using the new BitmapData.floodFill() method. This is a modification of the example that was posted over at protozoo. See the example below and then the actionscript below that.

[as]_root.createEmptyMovieClip(“con”,1);

con._x = man._x;

con._y = man._y;

var bitmapData = new flash.display.BitmapData(191,183,false);

con.attachBitmap(bitmapData,2);

bitmapData.draw(man);

man.onMouseDown = function() {

bitmapData.draw(man);

bitmapData.floodFill(this._xmouse,this._ymouse,c.color);

}[/as]

Flash Earth Drive to Work Video

If you haven’t checked out Flash Earth yet then I highly recommend you do so. It’s a Flash version of Google maps. I’ve created a funny little video showing the route I take to work everyday. I just used a screen capture program to record myself navigating.

Abstract Flash Animation

This is something abstract I did using the 3D Stroke plug-in inside of After Effects. I exported as an image sequence and then used Adobe Streamline to turn it all into vectors. Then it’s a simple import into Flash. They are created dynamically with random attributes.

Accordion FLV Video Application

This is a little video application that uses the Accordion component that ships with MX 2004. I will be doing a tutorial on how to build this in the next couple of days.