Question about making an animation

Does anyone know how I might develop an animation of a camera lens opening up and closing and as a visitor actually clicks on it, you would see a transitional effect of a flash of light as though a photograph had just been taken? Also, which program would be the most practical for making this kind of animation? Any tips/hints/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

You would probably have to use a transitional javascript. There are some on www.javascript-fx.com. Other than that, I could only think of Flash. You can't use an animation for a transitional effect because it can not react to mouseover/out.

Yup, that is certainly a Flash thing. I don't think JavaScript will support that kind of thing, but well there is a reason for why I am not a JavaScript mod...

Anyway, yes, via onMouseOver, OnMouseClick, OnMouseDown events, you could set that without any problem.

Have fun...!

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