This is something I was working on before the start of the holidays. The task was to create an animated show opener for a show called "The Cotai Show". I was asked to create it in HD. I have grown completely lazy with the state of computers today as they are much faster then they used to be. I no longer incorporate RAM/CPU saving techniques into my process as most of the stuff I do is in SD (standard definition). I learned the hard way quite fast with this project, that I had to re-learn the process for HD as not long after starting my project, the shit kept breaking my computer. After about the 5th crash I had to suck it up and start being smarter about how I laid it out. Anyways... below I have the finished product and a little making of vid showing the steps. This is by far no master piece but I enjoy seeing the process from start to finish as the process with animation is very different to doing post for videos.  Everything is very self contained and of course if anything goes wrong, I am usually the only one to blame :p

If you can't see it, it could be cuz you need to update to flash 10

For anyone wondering, the tasks included: acquiring the images, extracting the content, translating them to layered vectors, incorperating them into an animated timeline, stylizing and combining background elements and titles (with lots of glows, shines and flares cuz the clients love those things) and creating a score for the track that the client could have full rights too. The apps used were: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects & Logic.