# Animating static images? **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037 "2003-07-08T20:00:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alucard\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@Alucard\_X](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alucard_X)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/1 "2003-07-08T20:00:47Z")
Many sites have static images with flickering lights. I try to use a mask to achieve this effect, but for some reason it just does not look good. Any tutorials on this? I have a demo to submit tomorrow morning and i’m going mental ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/2 "2003-07-08T20:07:09Z")
Are you saying you want a published flash file or an animated gif? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/3 "2003-07-08T20:20:47Z")
I have a picture of a building, and i want to have lights flickering on it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/4 "2003-07-08T20:22:03Z")
Why not just add a layer above the image and insert the lights flickering animation. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/5 "2003-07-08T20:37:53Z")
Yes thats what i mean. I need to have lights following a twisting path, which is difficult to do. The masking is easy. But actually getting the lights in the first place is hard, especially when they have to be very thin ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/6 "2003-07-08T20:53:25Z")
Select the line tool and use the hairline thickness to make the micro lines of light to follow the path. Add keyframes on turning points and rotate the light to curve with turns in the image. This is something I made a long while ago: [swf=http://www.macromotive.com/ebay/dalu/pub\_battle.swf width=550 height=400][/swf] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/7 "2003-07-08T20:54:26Z")
wicked ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/8 "2003-07-08T20:58:29Z")
you did every tiny bit of that with just animations even the little ones that follow using actionscript? + alpha ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/9 "2003-07-08T21:07:28Z")
Everything in that image was animated, no scripting. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/10 "2003-07-08T21:32:03Z")
Yes thaty is similar to what i created before. But i have seen ones, where the light “glows”, is that some gradient fill or what? because i cannot get the line at point 0.25 to do anything. How could you make it glow? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/11 "2003-07-08T21:45:54Z")
Like this: [swf=http://www.macromotive.com/ebay/dalu/truck\_alpha.swf width=600 height=405][/swf] [http://www.macromotive.com/ebay/dalu/truck\_alpha.fla](http://www.macromotive.com/ebay/dalu/truck_alpha.fla) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/12 "2003-07-08T21:58:14Z")
looks like a linear gradient fill to me :thumb: Thanks. If the frame rate on that was higher, it would look pretty cool :bandit: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-static-images/25037/13 "2003-07-08T22:04:13Z")
I just pulled a quickie on it. 😉 (this is my other user name) 😛