Animated Flas Masks
I have seen a lot of really nice photo masking techniques done on the http://www.templatemonster.com web-site and was wondering if there is sites that would teach or have downloads of some of this type of photo masking. Seems like it would be more of the action scripting to pull some of these animations off...
thanks
smedia
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Posted on: 08-06-2007, 12:53 PM
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the animation works fine when it is unmasked.. but as soon as I make it a mask it doesnt move..
is this even possible
I have attached a copy of the file ..hopefully it will give you a better understanding of what im talking about,.. right now there is no mask set up just so you know..
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i've seen similar effects where a line of text is written out in cursive but none of the tutorials I've found go into any detail as to how to build a proper mask for something as complex as what I'd like to animate. how many more tutorials do we need in this world where someone shows how to make a ball move all over the screen revealing what's underneath?
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