Tricky Flash animation. Advice needed.

[Steve1]

Morning,

I'm doing a banner to advertise a black and white printer.

The idea is for individual pages to animate in from left to right as if they are flying off the printer. The pages form neat rows until they fill the stage.

As the pages build up they reveal an image of the printed.

To get a nice, natural effect the pages will need to curl and bend a little in flight but how is this possible if these pages are all individual jpgs of the final image?

I've attached a sketch of the idea.

Does that make sense? Any suggestions?

Cheers

[John G]

Off the top of my head I think with the current version of flash it's impossible to distort an image short of sizing, stretching and skewing (no distortions or complex distortions.

You could probably get a pretty believable fake using either a shape tweened movie clip or the draw() class (eek! math) as a mask for the image behind it (the image would be rotating and sizing as best as possible for a... "match"). Gradients with alpha's can also be tweened on top for more effect.

Everything remains a seperate stopped movie clip and then you can just fade in the big image over everything once it's all done (I think that's what you're asking).

[Steve1]

Yes the masking this is something I've been considering.

Of yeah....it has to be in Flash 6 / AS 2.0!

[Steve1]

I just had to knuckle down and animate each sheet/section with masks. It looks OK not excellent.

Zipped swf attached for anyone interested.