How did they do these effects

[rg_narayan]

Ok, though I am new to flash and AS, I know, a lot of planning and effort has gone into making the site I am referring to. I need to know about 3 of the effects displayed on the site.

The site is http://terminator3.com/

I would like to know how to make these:

1. How do you make those small white rectangular blocks that seem to swipe the area before displaying any image. If this is done using masking [presumably], then how to get this done dynamically.

2. how to blur image, the way its done on the site

3. are those thin hairlines moved using actionscript?… if yes, I am interested to know how did they bend the lines… particularly when the Chip Substrate is displayed, and just before the menu is displayed

Please provide me some pointers from where I can learn these.

Thanks in advance.

[Billy T]

looks to me to be all frame by frame animation with shape and motion tweening

basic flash bit very time consuming

the blurs would be done in photoshop

cheers

[rg_narayan]

Ah! Just when I thought nobody was going to reply to my post!. Thanks a lot Billy for your reply.

Hmmm… Painstaking work, I agree. But strange that so much would be done without thinking of reusability.

Anyway, do you think those small rectangle-flashes (matching the image size) can be done using AS. If it can be done, then Wow!, I would like to learn how to do such things.

Thanks once again

[Billy T]

yep you could do it with AS bt it still needs a bit of tweening

see attached

cheers