Crittercube under the Glass

[Lin Evans]

I liked Dom's idea of putting the text on the cube, so I borrowed his cube with my images to see how it would look under the magnifying glass! Just a little fun experiment with moving animation under the magnifying mask... About 3.7 meg in Mac & PC zipped executable format...

http://www.learntoma...2magnifymac.zip (MacIntosh)

http://www.learntoma...e2magnifypc.zip (Windows PC)

Lin

[Lin Evans]

Hi Tom,

Download once again - I think the original link was wrong...

Best regards,

Lin

Hi Lin,

Inside the PC zip is crittercubepc.exe 10/15/2009. I don't see the magnifying glass?

Tom

[Ken Cox]

glass there now

need bigger text

nice manicure

ken

[Lin Evans]

LOL - I'll tell the "hand model" (Sherry)... Definitely could use bigger text for the tiny size of the cube.

Best regards,

Lin

glass there now

need bigger text

nice manicure

ken

[Lin Evans]

Hi Tom,

It's a fun little exercise - essentially, one just copies and pastes the cube animation within the mask container then uses the controlling frame to increase the size. In this particular case, because of the correlated movement of the combined hand/magnifying glass and cube movement, it also required numerous keyframes to sync the mask size to the magnifying glass frame. It's actually fairly simple to do but requires iterative keyframe placement which is accomplished by sliding the blue triangle to maximum "out of phase" positions then inserting a correction keyframe. Lots of "fine tuning" but pretty straight-forward to accomplish.

Best regards,

Lin

Hi Lin,

Looks great. I've got to try a magnifying glass mask one of these days. There must be 2 duplicate cubes synchronized with one larger than the other. Very neat.

Tom