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MelissaMilloway
11 years agoCommunity Member
Thanks again Jackie and thank you Nick.
I used an Adobe Illustrator to create the text over the melting wax seal. Then I brought it into Photoshop and created the animation frame by frame, using the smudge tool a bit more for each frame. The seal if a .gif, so the transparency is not great (you can see there is a bit of white around the animated piece). I think it would probably be better if I started in flash and created a converted flash file. I had the static image of the seal as the normal image on the screen and then I did a state change to hover which the .gif animated image was in. I wish I had Adobe Edge in order to created cooler animations.
Most of the images in the GoI game are edited or created in Illustrator and Photoshop.
I used an Adobe Illustrator to create the text over the melting wax seal. Then I brought it into Photoshop and created the animation frame by frame, using the smudge tool a bit more for each frame. The seal if a .gif, so the transparency is not great (you can see there is a bit of white around the animated piece). I think it would probably be better if I started in flash and created a converted flash file. I had the static image of the seal as the normal image on the screen and then I did a state change to hover which the .gif animated image was in. I wish I had Adobe Edge in order to created cooler animations.
Most of the images in the GoI game are edited or created in Illustrator and Photoshop.