How far can you actually go with iPhone and animations?

[Thetcm]

We're looking to put animations on our iphone app, kind of like movies.

After looking at the doc and searching online, I came to the conclusion that there's nothing exactly flash-like?

The 3 solutions I found were :

-Put tons of pictures in a document and animate by changing the picture every second or so. NOT a good idea here, considering I'll have over 25 animations of the kind.

-Deconstruct the image into parts(background, character, etc) and do my best to animation with only movements and rotations. NOT a good idea either since I'm gonna be limited in what I can do.

-Export .mov files and read them directly in the QuickTime player.

Is that all you can do for flash-like anims? I'm currently gonna work on doing movs, and use the other 2 solutions for UI animations if necessary...

[jnic]

Depends on what you're trying to achieve. CoreAnimation or OpenGL ES might also be worth a look.

[Thetcm]

I cannot find these two app in my Developper folder. Only Core Image Fun House and OpenGL Shade Builder.

They're kind of complicated animations in a sense. They're basically workers doing a mistakes(all done in cartoon style) which results in them dying or explosions. I'm required to be able to have nearly no limits in what I can do, or else the final result will look bland and uninteresting.

[jnic]

CoreAnimation Programming Guide: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreAnimation_guide/Introduction/Introduction.html
OpenGL ES Framework: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/Frameworks/Media/OpenGLES/index.html

[dejo]

-Deconstruct the image into parts(background, character, etc) and do my best to animation with only movements and rotations. NOT a good idea either since I'm gonna be limited in what I can do.
That's pretty much the approach that actual Flash animations take too. So...

[Thetcm]

That's pretty much the approach that actual Flash animations take too. So...

With Flash I can easily animate movements beyond that though.

[Thetcm]

CoreAnimation is the Framework? Or is there actually a software behind it?

[jnic]

A framework.

Core Animation is an Objective-C framework that combines a high-performance compositing engine with a simple to use animation programming interface.

First link in my previous post.

[Thetcm]

Right. So we've decided to look a bit at what we can do with OpenGL and CoreAnimation and how limited we are. I was shooting for a style that was way more cartoonish but I guess I'm gonna have to go with mostly moving images and special effects.

Thanks a lot! ;)