Bezier animation fun!

Published by Ronny on March 3rd, 2009 in Actionscript, Experiments. 9 Comments Tagged with , , , , , ,

Last week I went to FITC in Amsterdam. It was great! I had such a great time. I met a lot of intresting people and although Amsterdam turned out to be quite expensive place, I really liked being there a few days.

During the conference I attended Joshua Davis‘ session which really inspired me. I’ve never seen Joshua Davis present, nor did I know his work. Let me be as crystal clear about this as I can be: The man is a freakin’ genius!
During his session he showed a few demo’s of bezier animated stuff. I felt like trying that myself, and this is what I came up with.

The basic concept is to create a bezier in Actionscript and animating movieclips using the bezier as its motion path.

  • Basic principle (this is actually just a basic pentool (without the option of adding new points :-P ))

The following versions use the same concept as this one, except instead of fixed anchor points, they all use random points defined in 2 planes. This makes a bit of variety possible allthough the main animation stays the same and that’s absolutely cool!

I added a few keyboard controls to give you some control of what is happening

  • spacebar = show the handles
  • r = clear the bitmap
  • p = pause the animation
  • n = randomize handles
  • b = blur more

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Hyder @ 21:19 - May 3rd, 2009

Great work Ronny, any chance we can get our hands on the source?

Ronny @ 21:21 - May 3rd, 2009

Sure, Hyder. I really should learn to publish the source right away. Will post it asap :)

Hyder @ 21:36 - May 3rd, 2009

Perfect!
Please comment here or email me when you do, thanks a million Ronny!

Eddie Wellar @ 5:21 - August 10th, 2009

Hi Ronnie, can I ask you please to send me the source of this experiment via mail?
I really like it and I would like to undertand more about bezier animation. I looked around and this is exactly what I’m looking for.

Thanks you my friend, thanks for sharing your knowledge with the community.

All the best

Eddie

Ronny @ 2:54 - August 24th, 2009

Sorry guys! Still haven’t gotten to posting the sources! Posting them asap! (4AM right now…)
Tomorrow: Promised! ;)

Eddie Wellar @ 20:51 - September 6th, 2009

Hi Ronnie,
any news on the source?

Thanks

Ronny @ 21:13 - September 6th, 2009

Well believe or not, but I’m working on getting a class to animate using bezier curves. I will be posting that class along with the sources of this in the coming days. (Only thing I need to do before releasing the class is adding the ‘randomness’ in the motion. Shouldn’t take too long) ;)

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