[Trojan]

I think I have an Idea of what you want to do, I'm not aware of any application that will do that for you automatically, u're still gonna have to build each frame seperatly, You can do it the 3D way to build up ur frames and animation, some macromedia products can do that, or u can use a Ray Tracing package and a modeler to do it, or 3DSmax and export as avi, ur still gonna need a way to convert ur avi to animated gif or to flash or build up ur animation frame by frame.

if u've never used ray tracers modelers etc.. then you might aswell stick with ur 2D graphics package.

I've done something similar with Povray and Moray, basically u texture a flat 2D plane with your image and light it, opposite u insert ur text and make the text material a Reflecting surface like a mirror, point the camera at it and ur text should show the reflected image, then render each character one at a time, then use gif builder to construct ur animation frame by frame.

with 3DS max or Maya it's much easier and you can export directly to an animation, again you will need tools to convert from avi to gif or flash or whatever..

it all depends on the image/texture/material, if it's dynamic then you're going to have to do it manually.

if u do find a better way then plz post ur solution here, maybe someone can do a tutorial along similar lines here.


peace out