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Animation: Energy Saving Device with Mouse Control
This is a mouse-controlled animation that allows the user to view each frame by dragging the green spheres either horizontally or vertically.    Since this is an animation of an actual physical device, it was necessary to build a rig that would allow photos to be taken at a set of specific angles.    In this case we chose to rotate the device at 10 degree increments which gave us 36 animation frame photos for each rotation in a circle of 360 degrees.    An additional requirement is that the device could spin in either the horizontal or vertical axis in the final animation.    The photos were then imported into Adobe Photoshop to prepare each frame image; this was done mainly to remove the background containing the rig, but also to line each image up to a specific point in the frame.    When all the frames were prepared, they were imported into Adobe Flash.    3D animation of virtual objects is obviously much easier, but the requirement was that it be the actual physical device, and this presented a huge amount of problems to overcome.    Although the project itself was interesting and produced results, it was not worth the amount of effort expended.    We don't recommend trying this at home.    Also, three more animations of similar devices of different sizes were also produced, but those animations are not shown here.