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Animation Web Cast

Due to technical difficulties (total video chaos) today's animation webcast was scrubbed.  To make up for that, I'll be recording a video on Animation From Soup to Nuts in the next 2 weeks which we'll post as quickly as we can. In the interim, if you are already familiar with the fundamentals of animation, you may want to take a look at our existing videos on animation

My apologies for today's technical difficulties

Published 01 October 2008 04:56 PM by jesseliberty
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# figuerres said on 01 October, 2008 05:42 PM

Jesse:  here is what I hope is not to hard and might make a good example.

say I am trying to make a card game.

I have the storyboard for moving a card form a shoe to a player .... so far I am showing only the back of the card.

now I want to have a visual of a card "Flip" from back to font.

now If i had a fancy 3d system I would make a thin 3d rect so I have a front and back face and I would rotate the object and then drop it to the "table"

but Silverlight is not 3d.

so how might one fake that ?

I am sure there must be at least 2 or 3 ways to do it.

visibility, opacity, skew, transform .... where to start?

# obsid said on 01 October, 2008 08:49 PM

to go from the back of the card to the front, my guess is that your going to want to display the back of the card, stretch it from 100% to 0% display the front of the card, then strech it from 0%-100%.

Its not perfect, but I think its the best you can do with only using affine transformations which is all that silverlight allows (really what your doing is fliping it using a orthographic projection rather then a perspective projection).

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