Spent today trying to complete the animation I had been working on. I had shown my progress to Jimmy and he presented to me how to use what is the flash equivalent of hotspots --actionscript-- in order to get a bit more interaction into it. Unfortunately it just become very difficult and troublesome to try and implement. Essentially the animation would work exactly the same as show below, however the calculator would start closed and explode on the mouse hovering over, when the mouse is removed it would close again. This is not the difficult part, the thing that caused much stress was trying to get the calculator to de-explode (implode?) smoothly, instead of snapping back to the initial frame. There is a way to do this, according to the tutorials I have been looking at, however for now I thought it would be worthwhile to show what I was able to come up with.
V.1 (loops forever, and contains no actionscript)
V.2 (actionscript- explodes on mouse over, however does not snap back : ( )
I think perhaps this is more hassle than it is worth. Perhaps some static type based banner would be better after all, and save the skills I have learnt here for something later on in a future brief.
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