{"id":1834,"date":"2020-12-05T18:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T23:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2020-12-05T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T02:03:22","slug":"christmas-tree-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"Christmas tree animation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1080\" controls src=\"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/christmas-tree-animation.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Something a little different for me!\u00a0 I really hadn&#8217;t considered doing any kind of animation but I was commissioned to do a Christmas tree graphic for a client.\u00a0 The thought was that it would be used to show the donation levels for their organization.\u00a0 As more donations came in, the tree would fill up with ornaments and candles.\u00a0 Originally, I had intended just to use the 4 levels to chart 0-25%, 25-50%, 50-75%, and 75-100%.\u00a0 That way I could just have four separate images and upload the one that matched the donation level at the time.\u00a0 But the client thought it would be cool to have the tree slowly filling in.\u00a0 Hubby and I were able to convince them that tying it in to the actual donations in real time would be too difficult but that a very simple animation that showed the tree filling up was probably easy enough to pull off.\u00a0 So, that began my very slow and clumsy foray into animation using Adobe Animate (previously called Flash).\u00a0 Truth be told, I tried using a different program first called AfterEffects but it was just way more complicated than what I needed it for.\u00a0 In the end, I think I came up with something nice.\u00a0 It IS a bit clunky.\u00a0 I would like a smoother transition, but I&#8217;m happy that something happened.\u00a0 And now, I have some knowledge of the program and can maybe explore it more on my own time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As this is a commissioned piece, I like to link to the organization that paid for the project.\u00a0 This piece was commissioned by a local non-profit group called Mission For Area People.\u00a0 This was part of their Advent event.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested in checking out their organization and maybe even donating to their event, please check them out at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/missionforareapeople.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/missionforareapeople.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Something a little different for me!\u00a0 I really hadn&#8217;t considered doing any kind of animation but I was commissioned to do a Christmas tree graphic for a client.\u00a0 The thought was that it would be used to show the donation levels for their organization.\u00a0 As more donations came in, the tree would fill up&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[602,601,600,603,604,440,599,447,605,22],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial","tag-advent","tag-animate","tag-animation","tag-bows","tag-candles","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-tree","tag-ornaments","tag-star","tag-tree","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}