Today we will being our foray into geographic visualizations with a quick survey of early cartographic animation. Yes, these will seem painfully basic and slow (or will play way.too.fast) but they set the mark as to where the field began and how much progress has been made in a relatively short period of time. They will also give us the chance to discuss the core elements of map animations -- components we will be learning to craft in the next couple of labs.
We will also be fiddling with Photoshop for Lab 1. The initial plan was to do little Photoshop with some Flash mixed in but our copies of Flash have not magically appeared yet. While we wait for Flash we will be working with some satellite imagery. I will also show you a few tricks in Photoshop that can help you modify graphics for your animations during the semester (be gone pesty white box!). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV38L4c4JKY
And lastly, I will discuss the metaphor of Flash so that we can jump into the program a little faster next week.
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