There may be more elegant ways to do this but I'd bring Tyson into PowerPoint through the Articulate Add-ins (Studio), add the book and manipulate it however you need to, then save as a picture and insert back into Storyline. I use PPT all the time for image editing.
So this is an example of the picture. it has no separate elements to alter. the only way I see editing a "book" or a "television screen" or whatever artistic thing that needs doing, into Anton hands here is will Illustrator. A very time intensive process
It seems weird that we've been provided a character with a blank board, but to place anything on it (other than manipulating text) will obscure his arms and hands.
Solution: the board needs to be transparent
Why: anything can be placed in these characters hands without obstructing their hands
Oh I see that. I hadn't looked at the character and pose. :( Yes--it seems like that would be difficult. Maybe there's a way to remove the board? In SnagIt you could erase it and maybe a freeform crop/remove in PPT but it wouldn't be fast or clean. Hopefully someone else will have an idea for how to do this simply!
You could export as an image and manipulate in photoshop, probably 2-3 minutes work to cut out. The only problem is that a lot of the character will be missing and the replacement item will need to be the same size.
You can even do this in something like PowerPoint.
I did this for a recent video I created in Vyond.
Part of the image in the Vyond video (and the image in the phone was an actual video playing).
The "pieces" I edited in PowerPoint. The phone and hand were from ElearningArt. I combined then in PowerPoint after duplicating the hand and then shaped down the thumb in the copy, adding a little bit of soft edge to that cut-out thumb, and then adding it over the phone and hand.
Export Anton image into illustrator, made board (in his hands) transparent, inserted image to replace board. Nothing too taxing.
My main issue is that the producers of this software have provided characters that hold "something", but that something is limited to a text box. There is no interactivity functions
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Hi Sean,
There may be more elegant ways to do this but I'd bring Tyson into PowerPoint through the Articulate Add-ins (Studio), add the book and manipulate it however you need to, then save as a picture and insert back into Storyline. I use PPT all the time for image editing.
Good luck!
Shannon
Thanks Shannon
So this is an example of the picture. it has no separate elements to alter. the only way I see editing a "book" or a "television screen" or whatever artistic thing that needs doing, into Anton hands here is will Illustrator. A very time intensive process
It seems weird that we've been provided a character with a blank board, but to place anything on it (other than manipulating text) will obscure his arms and hands.
Solution: the board needs to be transparent
Why: anything can be placed in these characters hands without obstructing their hands
yay!!
Sean
Oh I see that. I hadn't looked at the character and pose. :( Yes--it seems like that would be difficult. Maybe there's a way to remove the board? In SnagIt you could erase it and maybe a freeform crop/remove in PPT but it wouldn't be fast or clean. Hopefully someone else will have an idea for how to do this simply!
You could export as an image and manipulate in photoshop, probably 2-3 minutes work to cut out. The only problem is that a lot of the character will be missing and the replacement item will need to be the same size.
You can even do this in something like PowerPoint.
I did this for a recent video I created in Vyond.
Part of the image in the Vyond video (and the image in the phone was an actual video playing).
The "pieces" I edited in PowerPoint. The phone and hand were from ElearningArt. I combined then in PowerPoint after duplicating the hand and then shaped down the thumb in the copy, adding a little bit of soft edge to that cut-out thumb, and then adding it over the phone and hand.
So this is what we ended up doing
Export Anton image into illustrator, made board (in his hands) transparent, inserted image to replace board. Nothing too taxing.
My main issue is that the producers of this software have provided characters that hold "something", but that something is limited to a text box. There is no interactivity functions
Thank you all
Sean
Hi Sean,
I think you got a great result from Illustrator, even Anton looks impressed !! :)
Thanks Ned
As a follow up to this. I have also managed to make the "board" transparent in PowerPoint
click on picture--> format --> remove background-->fine tune until you're happy
Cheers Sean
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