It's Never As Easy As It Seems...

Recently I was asked to produce a simple site for a painter. He provided a font to use for the titles and everything seemed very straight forward.

As the materials arrived the site soon took shape and it was almost time to publish the site. That's when it suddenly went much harder...

The client provided a link to a simple animation. 'Instead of the logo on the top of the screen, can you use the first half of this animation and then fade in the current logo?' Seemed a very simple and reasonable question...

I paid for & downloaded the 41mb file for the animation. And that was the first surprise - it wasn't a swf file. And frequently when it played it hung after 7 seconds. This suddenly wasn't going to be easy.

Not having the software to edit it a local graphic designer stepped in to help. He too struggled to edit it, but eventually a 50kb file was produced containing the animation. And I must admit, it's a good finished effect. See for yourself at StarzCeilings.