Animation Comparisons

Demos: 1.g ; 2.f ; 3.f ; 4.b ; 5.b ; 6.b ; 7.b (scroll for details)

Description File Size
1. Flash - smiley. 1 kb
2. GIF - smiley 4 kb
3. Flash - "Ken Burns" effect with poetry,without web links 120 kb
4. Bryce - Camera View 1. Note that the camera moves with the object. 6.8 mb
5. Bryce - Director top view . Camera stationary, 30 sec. 1.2 mb
6. Bryce - Director ground view. 504x402 pixels, 30 sec., highly compressed MPEG file designed to be playable on 56kb modems 860 kb
7. Bryce - Director ground view. 504x402 pixels, 30 sec., less compression 4.2 mb

The above animation presentation area makes use of an inline frame, which enables the composer to switch different pages containing different media into this one location within a web page. When visible, click the "Play" triangle below the animation clip to start. Autostart is sometimes set to False. Be patient while the animation loads.

To examine the source code of the pages placed in the above inline frame for the code needed to place such animations in your web pages, right click the above links. Though 3D animation is not covered until the next chapter, it's purpose here in these examples is to allow comparison with the file sizes, download display time and image quality associated with the 2D animation of GIF and Flash files.