Here's the deal. I've been hired to create a figure in Poser for a series of animations. These animations will be put on web pages. The content BEHIND the animation has to be visible, so the animation itself has to have a transparent background.

The best way I have found to do this is as follows:

Render the animation out of Poser as a series of still images.
Bring the images into Photoshop, and export them as GIF89A files, with the background color made transparent.
Bring these GIFs into Flash, and re-assemble them into a movie.
Export this movie using Flash's Transparent Window Mode (Publish Settings dialog box).
Build a table having a background image consisting of whatever screenshot I need.
Position the Flash movie in this table using CSS.

It's a rather complex algorithm, but it has the advantage of working.

My question is, does anyone have a better way of doing this? My client wants to be able to change the screenshot from time to time, without necessarily changing the anmation -- so there is no point in putting the screenshot into a layer in Flash. Bigger file, anyway.

I'm posting this in the Photoshop and Poser forums just to see what sort of response I may get from different communities. Thanks in advance, folks!

Message edited on: 05/27/2004 10:10