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Introduction

Like most Flash Motion Graphics designers, I am regularly perusing the web for design inspiration. I don’t know about you, but when I saw complex design elements like plants and tribal shapes grow on screen right before my eyes, I wanted to know how they did it. I assumed they were really good with shape tweening, but if you’ve tried to execute a complex shape tween, I’m sure you discovered quickly that Flash’s current shape tween renderer is about as predictable as Ohio’s weather. So the next best bet was masking a finished design and then revealing it magically as if it were being illustrated in real time. Sure enough, after testing some theories, we zeroed in on this process which we’ll now share with you!
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As a hobby, I’m an amateur filmmaker. I’ve been making videos for over 10 years in my spare time with some friends. As an artist, it’s another creative outlet ripe for exploration. It just so happens a video that I shot one year ago got really popular on the Internet and launched its subject, Brent Simon, into Internet fame.

In this article, I will explain how it happened and how Go Media was involved in the branding and guerrilla marketing that took a small-town musician from Ohio and landed him on national TV.

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