Deconstructing
JibJab: Creating Talking Heads ![[Registration never required for free content]](file0256_files/free.gif)
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By: Kim
Cavanaugh on Thursday, October 14, 2004
Reader Level: 
The
campaign for the American President in 2004 has seen an interesting phenomenon
develop--the use of Flash for the creation of "home-made" campaign commercials.
By far the funniest, and the most-widely viewed, are the two Flash movies
created by the two brothers at JibJab.com. This tutorial includes 5 movies where
you'll see how one part of that video might have been done using Fireworks and
Flash. You'll take a look at the creation of a talking head in this tutorial and
see how masks are used for editing bitmap images, how the use of layers in
Fireworks allows you to create a single master file, and how the different
pieces are brought together in Flash to create an animated talking head.
