Sep
25
September 25, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Fresh2007 is the BCIT Digital Arts Industry Grad Show.
The night will showcase the work of the 2007 graduates of the Design Essentials, Digital Animation and New Media Design and Web Development programs.
The Industry Night will be held at Radical Entertainment at 369 Terminal Ave, Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday, Oct 18, 2007 from 5-8 pm.
You are invited to join us for this unique event. The grad students are pleased to extend this invitation out to all Digital Arts professionals, and look forward to meeting with the forerunners of the Digital Arts Industry.
www.fresh2007.ca
Come check us out!
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Aug
13
August 13, 2007 at 7:01 pm
For one of our assignments for webmarketing class, we needed to create an approx. 15 sec. flash web banner under 40K. It was surprisingly challenging, since whenever I decrease the file size, I end up with low image quality, since there is less data stored in the bytes. 40 K is definately small, so every K counts!
Here are some tips I found:
- Optimize your raster images in Photoshop first. Use the save for web and devices option. Play around with the settings. I suggest using JPEG compression since I found it to produce the better quality for the size. If you use blur, it makes some of the quality loss less visible, but don’t over do it.
- In Flash, don’t embed fonts! Break your fonts apart. Yes, it does mean you can’t edit them after but this is the quick and dirty way. Once it is broken apart, the fonts turn into vector, which makes like a 5 K difference. (I know big whoop, but if you’re working with a 40K limit, it makes a difference!)
- Use as much vector as possible. Create all your images in flash if possible. Photographs take up too much bytes.
- Try going grayscale with photos. Less colors= smaller file size.
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Aug
2
August 2, 2007 at 12:41 am
This is the first time I’ve come across this problem, so I thought I should blog about it since I found it rather interesting.
Problem: When I embed a external swf with text content that is loaded through an XML file, and then put a mask over it, the text just doesn’t appear in the text field. Everything else such as the graphics and movie clips work loaded fine. When I take off the mask the text will load fine in the text field.. how weird.
However, the solution was very simple: just embed the font!
Here’s the explanation I found on actionscript.org forum:
“Flash has a limitation where TextFields cannot be rotated or have their alpha values changed (including masking) if you’re using the system fonts. By embedding the font, Flash Player is able to use the raw vector data just like any shape.” -Dr. Zeus
Thanks! I guess I really do learn something new everyday.
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