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Postby tp41190 on November 25th, 2008, 3:08 pm
OK so I spent about 2 hours of my weekend, damn weather, working on a SFGAmWorld banner similar to the Cedar Point web page banner. http://www.cedarpoint.com

A few things...
-there is a about 200+ layers
-133 frames
-I know the animation is a bit fast but I am tweaking it
-This is a compressed file, so some color and shapes are not very vivid
-Sky Trek Tower only goes up...it was a pain to get it moving in the first place
-This was made in photoshop and is just a concept, the final would be made with flash
-The trains are not detailed
--V2 doesn't hold
--Dejavu doesn't pause
--Eagle is just kind of blah
--and theres no Whizzer :lol:

So here it is...

*Direct link http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj25 ... banner.gif

**If you want to zoom in, download (right click, save as), then right click on the image icon and (right click, preview).

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Please tell me what you think.
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Postby Director_Guy on November 25th, 2008, 3:24 pm
Ha ha! I like it alot. I've always liked the Cedar Point website because of that banner.
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Postby tp41190 on November 25th, 2008, 3:33 pm
^Thanks

Oh S*it! I totally forgot to save my project file!

OK, now I have to redo Sky Trek Tower, Raging Bull, Eagle :x
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Postby sfgamguy on November 25th, 2008, 5:49 pm
great
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Postby Jackluver18 on November 25th, 2008, 5:55 pm
it looks good to me
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Postby Chitown on November 25th, 2008, 6:28 pm
I also like the park's websites that have interactive maps (moving rides, people, etc.)

http://www.hardrockpark.com/map/map.cfm
http://www.knotts.com/map/knotts_web.swf
http://www.seaworld.com/orlando/parkmaps.html
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Postby Jackluver18 on November 25th, 2008, 8:53 pm
I think ours should do that, that would be cool
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Postby onyxhotel08 on November 25th, 2008, 10:10 pm
Change is good from time to time. This is cool and more interesting to the eye.
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Postby demonbulleagle on November 25th, 2008, 10:21 pm
That is really cool and creative. I like it!
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Postby tp41190 on November 25th, 2008, 11:49 pm
Thanks! I started to one in Flash and it will be a lot more detailed.

What do you guys think of Eagle?
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Postby cycamps on November 26th, 2008, 12:01 am
It's pretty neat. I know how much work something like that takes, and you did a good job.
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Postby tp41190 on November 26th, 2008, 12:23 am
I was going to make eagle go all the way down the Barrel but I would have had to change the opacity.

Also, I think I should make make Giant Drop go slower since the drop is pretty crappy.
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Postby demonbulleagle on November 26th, 2008, 9:54 am
You should make Deja Vu valley once and a while or at least make it have a miss-catch.
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Postby tp41190 on November 26th, 2008, 12:24 pm
That would have to be done in Flash since that would make the .GIF sequence almost 5 mins long...and that would be a huge file.

...I am also considering having SkyWhirl pop up once and a while with a very shady tint almost like a ghost. If I can do it properly, Raging Bull would have 2 trains and Sky Trek Tower will be visibly spinning.

...so far in flash, I got the first drop of Superman and 2 laps on V2.
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Postby demonbulleagle on November 26th, 2008, 9:02 pm
Cool ideas, Especially with the Sky Whirl idea.

Good Luck with the whole thing.
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Postby JordanSDMF on November 27th, 2008, 3:13 pm
Cool concept, bad animation
I think you should make the trains black, since well.. it's a silhouette (spelling?).

But in flash, it should be amazing. Also, the .gif quality made it look bad.
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Postby onyxhotel08 on November 27th, 2008, 6:51 pm
We should use that! Awesome ideas. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Postby tp41190 on November 27th, 2008, 10:57 pm
JordanSDMF wrote:Cool concept, bad animation
I think you should make the trains black, since well.. it's a silhouette (spelling?).

But in flash, it should be amazing. Also, the .gif quality made it look bad.


Black was rarely noticeable. I also needed minimal frames so animation had to be fast. And I did Superman first with black trains but you couldn't really see it.
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Postby onyxhotel08 on November 27th, 2008, 11:34 pm
Why is there no Whizzer?
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Postby LZHSRCEC on November 27th, 2008, 11:56 pm
I will guess its too low on the skyline to see
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Postby demonbulleagle on November 27th, 2008, 11:58 pm
^ sorry that was me the RCEC is not offical yet but I made the account.
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Postby onyxhotel08 on November 28th, 2008, 12:08 am
When will we have the countdown on the main page for opening day? I loved it last winter! BTW, HH page still says it is now open for the 2008 season...
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Postby Jerrykoala2112 on November 29th, 2008, 11:53 pm
Its ok, I could barely notice it moving. Im fine with what ever the banner is, :)
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Postby ben_the_bear on December 10th, 2008, 10:32 pm
Nice job. Was that for your computer classes?
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Postby tp41190 on December 11th, 2008, 12:18 am
Well, I was supposed to be doing my 10 page website (by hand using notepad and XHTML and CSS) but I did this instead.

And BTW the Flash version is about 50% done....I may wait until next semester though until I learn how to make it interactive. I mean I could try but I dont want to mess it up.
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