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Lightning

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:30 am
by human
Here is a very simple lightning effect. There are only a few frames, and timing is encoded into the animated GIF.

Note that the timing in your browser does not necessarily match the timing in the GIF.

Sorry it's both monotonous and, well, sort of "flashy."

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Im hoping this ought to be okay as a fleeting image in a movie. The purpose is to establish mood and relationship.

Suggestions welcome.

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:12 am
by jahnocli
Looks good! Personally, I would have less definition of the characters on their right-hand side (as you look at them), but that's a personal (and minor!) thing. Well done...

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:12 pm
by human
Here's why Walt is gloomy--he is envisioning his own assassination:

"Perhaps soon, some day or night, while I am singing, my voice shall suddenly cease."

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{And a Spanish doubleloon to the first of ye who gets the reference to art history.]

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:26 am
by jahnocli
I claim my doubloon! Is it a painting by Mantegna -- can't remember the title (well, maybe half a doubloon then...is that a loon?)

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:30 pm
by FCSnow
Don't know about art history, but as far back as the ancient Greeks, gold coin were placed on the eye of the dead to pay the Grim Boatman for their passage across the river Styx.

F.C.Snow

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:46 pm
by human
jahnocli wrote:I claim my doubloon! Is it a painting by Mantegna -- can't remember the title (well, maybe half a doubloon then...is that a loon?)
Please proceed to the checkout station for your prize.

(If you're going to rip, rip from the old masters.)