Flash Animation 'Stick & Surf'

Hi,

this is a Flash Animation I just finished for my company. We use it on our website www.avm.de to describe our ‘Stick & Surf’ feature, which transfers the encryption key of the router to the USB client by just sticking it into the router one time.

It’s made with Blender (partially using YafRay) and combinded in Flash.

I hope you like it.

Thorsten

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Excellent anim, thoro! Cool product, too! (wish mine had this feature!) Is your company marketing these globally? If so, you should add english “subtitles” for the rest of us… :wink:

The Flash animation looks professional.

I noticed that the USB stick does not have a reflection, while the hub and computer do have a reflection.

The reflection would look incorrect on a moving object. As the hub and the computer doesnt move like that, they can have a reflection without that it looks strange.

If the USB stick moved with a reflection, then the light would move with the USB stick and the light isn’t affecting the hub? hmmm strange :slight_smile:

mzungu: Thank you! Hmm, the product’s international status is ‘coming soon’ - so I think I’ll have to make a version with english subtitles ‘soon’ :D.

coderdave and Cobra Banshee: Thanks, guys - I tested the animation with a reflection of the stick but the main problem is that the stick changes it’s altitude, because the usb port of the router is higher than the one of the notebook. And so I would have to handle the reflection seperately - after a quick test with a few colleagues it was clear that they don’t even notice a difference - and so I decided not to use a reflection :D.

Nice professional-looking animation, and a neat product too. The USB idea sure beats typing in long WPA keys!

Very nice animation. But perhaps the stick could use a reflection, or shadow.