Wanted a Globe animated - help

ggc · June 1st, 2006, 03:35 AM

Hi,

can any one help me to create a revolving Globe. in Flash or GIF.

Thanks

GGC

Duckyl · June 1st, 2006, 04:36 AM

what kind of globe??

an earth or a light bulb

ggc · June 1st, 2006, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Duckyl

what kind of globe??

an earth or a light bulb

Earth !..

Duckyl · June 1st, 2006, 05:03 AM

i'll see what i can come up with

Legacy_Staff · June 1st, 2006, 06:47 AM

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=...ed+globe&hl=en

ggc · June 1st, 2006, 07:57 AM

i want to create the one in the below web site.

http://www.ecmod.edu.np/

help me

Thanks

jpmitchell · June 1st, 2006, 09:35 PM

I see one on your site, did you resolve this issue or do you still need help ?

Duckyl · June 2nd, 2006, 04:47 AM

hey DS, i think you misread lol...

ggc said that they'd like the one which is on the link provided :P

jpmitchell · June 2nd, 2006, 11:37 AM

Duckyl,

Yep I read that wrong.

To answer the question.

(I am not in a place where I can do it right now, but I'll explain how I would do it to recreate one like you see, so someone else can do it. Unless I get home an no one has done it and then I'll do it).

Illustrator has a symbol of a flat world map. You could take the flat map and have one normal and one in reverse (for the reverse side of the globe). Then open up Photoshop and get a few layers set up. I could do it with as few as 2, but 4 is probably best. Set those up as the front start, front end, back start, back end. Then open up image ready and have it go from the start to end using transitions. That should do it. As it is simply a circle with a front and back moving to give the impression its turning. It isn't actually rolling around a 3D element.

Hopefully that makes more sense.

Duckyl · June 28th, 2006, 03:40 AM

i'm making it at the moment will be done in a few mins...

ggc · June 28th, 2006, 05:57 AM

Thanks a lot! Pls a bit of write up how you did it.

Legacy_Staff · June 28th, 2006, 06:04 AM

What graphics software do you have ggc?

ggc · June 28th, 2006, 06:08 AM

Photoshop, corel draw, flash

Legacy_Staff · June 28th, 2006, 06:19 AM

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Originally Posted by ggc

Pls a bit of write up how you did it.

K, in that case it's already been done;

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpmitchell

Illustrator has a symbol of a flat world map. You could take the flat map and have one normal and one in reverse (for the reverse side of the globe). Then open up Photoshop and get a few layers set up. I could do it with as few as 2, but 4 is probably best. Set those up as the front start, front end, back start, back end. Then open up image ready and have it go from the start to end using transitions. That should do it. As it is simply a circle with a front and back moving to give the impression its turning. It isn't actually rolling around a 3D element.

If you don't have the image in Illustrator, you can find one on Google images easily enough.
Create it in Photoshop and animate it in ImageReady (bundled with PhotoShop 8).
Save as a gif file and you have your spinning globe.
You can make it look as nice, or even better, than the example you wished to copy.

Duckyl · June 28th, 2006, 09:12 AM

lol here is an even easier way... find a model online use a 3d modelling program tell it to rotate and you're done...

question... specific colors? text for when i make it into flash

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