it's been a bit more than 10 years that i've been animating sailing rules and team racing scenarios. below are some examples from 10 years ago that I worked on with a guy named Jay who used to be the webmaster for the ICSA. The boats were orginally modeled in ashlar vellum (a CAD package) to figure out the basic physics of the motion. I then imported into director, animated there and exported as picts. The picts were then dragged into gif animator for the animation (I used GIFs since shockwave was still not workin on all browsers). Back then there was no flash, director ruled the animation world, few people knew what antialiasing was and animated GIFs seemed to be the most standard delivery medium for animation (though it had some pretty significant limitations). Click on the below links to see the animations:
an odd boat that disobeyed physics and a very nice mark
a very tight fit but NO contact!!!
if you look at other entries in this blog you'll see we've come a long way in 10 years...
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