Making an animation logo for the website (2): a handwriting animation

U: i am doing a handwriting animation of “Coolder.com”
M: 🙂 sound great
U: but…i noticed you have a gradient background
M: what’s the different?
M:  maybe you can do a handwriting animation of “Mia’s blog”. Its background is white
U: i’m just wondering if the flash animation will embed with a transparent background
M: will it be a .gif file?
U: maybe .swf file
M: oh, i c
U: can i do a .gif file with flash
M: maybe you can change it to a .gif later with a .gif produce software.
M: 😉
U: no no
U: i can export as a GIF motion graphic
M: were you offline just now?
U: seems i have only worked with SWF and FLV files
M: that’s great.
U: i had flash open and closed skype by mistake
M: 🙂
M: I  thought that my network had problem.
U: i can send you the file in different formats and you can choose which works best
M: that’s great.
U: i will start off by animating this into a handwritten animation
 *** U sent Coolder.gif ***
U: and see how it works and then go from there
M: oh, i c. I was thinking it’s static
U: i haven’t done the animation yet
U: 60 keyframes
M: 🙂
U: it will appear to look as if it is being hand-written
M: I think I know.
U: you will see tomorrow
M: 🙂
U: what do you know?
M: I think the way it’s writed.
M: one stroke after another
U: erase a little bit of each letter with each keyframe
U: then…reverse then keyframes
M: oh,
U: and finally with Action Script….use the stop() command
M: oh, i c. tks
U: i had gotten into using AfterEffects that i had to brush-up a bit on Flash
U: AfterEffects would be much easier to do this
M: oh
M: 60 keyframe, it’s many
U: but the format wont work with embedding into the blog
U: maybe i will use less than 30 keyframes
U: i will see how fast it is
M: ok,
U: i can add or subtract keyframes
M: 🙂
U: i want it to look normal
M: like real hand writing
U: exaclty
U: and maybe experiment with different font styles
M: 🙂
U: maybe add a surprise in there as well
M: oh,
U: i feel active again so…i want to get in to it
M: 🙂
M: greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat

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