By accident (I was creating a custom for another paper toy designer) I created a new papertoy.
This is the first time I create a real toy.
It’s called drukk and its still a papertoy in progress (WIP), but here you have an example made in Google Sketchup:
![drukk: new papertoy by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck]](http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/drukk_googlesketchup.png)
Because it’s not a ‘static’ toy (you could call it a paper automata) I also created a promotional video:
Soon I will post more about drukk
How to convert a SWF to an AVI (without spending any cash)? I have written about this question before [Covert SWF to AVI (SWF2AVI or SWFtoAVI)] and my answer was back then: swf2avi, a freeware project by Mario Pizzinini.
SWF2AVI is not an active project (last update from 2002-08-27), but does the job very well.
I’ve used it a couple of times, and when you know who this program works, you get the result you need.
Back then I didn’t have an alternative, but I do now!
And the alternative, in my opinion, is better and more user friendly: http://www.avi-swf-convert.com/
is a more recent project (the last update is from 2005-07-20), and does the same thing as swf2avi but has some extra very handy features:
But it doesn’t convert sound and interactive animations may not be properly converted
It’s an freeware program, which does what it says: it converts SWF to (uncompressed) AVI. So if you need a compressed version of your animation you need another program to do that (something to write about in another post). SWF>>AVI is a Windows program which needs Microsoft .Net Framework (it will be automatically downloaded and installed if required).
The same rules (code) apply to SWF>>AVI as it did with SWF2AVI
It’s smart to use frame based animation, although it seems that SWF>>AVI is faster in grabbing the images, so timebased animation is can be an option if you don’t care for an exact export.
Otherwise use the code posted here for you convenience:
I was always under the assumption that you couldn’t export video with flash.
And yes I know …. there are couple ways to export video but they have some restrictions.
To export from Flash to Quicktime (MOV) means that you SWF can’t be higher than Flash 5 and in the standard export setting AVI and MOV can’t contain script, so everything has to be animated on root timeline even animation in movieclips don’t work.
There is also the possibility to export a sequence of images which has the same restriction…
But since I use swf2avi I don’t have these restrictions no longer.
Swf2avi is very easy to use (what all programs with 1 aim should be). It’s quite intuitive! So no tutorial will be made by me, not even a small explanation.
Swf2avi will create a container (if necessary) to play your SWF frame-by-frame and creates screenshots of every frame in either BMP or JPG.
This sequence can be translated afterwards to AVI with swf2avi (with the possibility of compression), an AVI can be converted to FLV and play it with a flashVideoPlayer.