New Illustrated Character - Alex

Aug 13, 2013

Hey everyone,

I thought I post this up there to get some feedback from everyone. I just finished creating a new illustrated character

Some of you already know that I will be opening an online store (visual-e-learning.com) that will sell characters specifically designed to be used in e-learning modules. From some of the feedback I received, it seems like there is a need for industrial characters (police, firefighters, construction) and I've already started creating more characters in those areas.

I wanted to put the demo file here because this community has always been so great at providing feedback.

Here is the storyline file - Download

Install:
1. Close Storyline application if it is running
2. Copy the .acp file to C:\Program Files or Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Articulate\Characters\Illustrated
3. Start Storyline and enjoy!

If you don't have storyline you can download the png files. Just mix and match.

Again I appreciate any feedback. You can post it here or send it to my email info(at)visual-e-learning.com

Thanks everyone.

Jerson

EDIT

Just wanted to let everyone know that Visual-e-Learning.com is open and has 4 characters ready with more on the way. There are also some items for that other rapid e-learning development software.

53 Replies

Jerson Campos
Author

over 10 years ago09/22/13 at 9:10 pm (UTC)

Thank Kevin,

Kirsty Hall

over 10 years ago09/22/13 at 10:19 pm (UTC)

Nice work Jerson ...... I will be following your website to see what other characters you create.

Kind Regards

Kirsty

Veronica Budnikas
Hero

over 10 years ago09/24/13 at 4:47 am (UTC)

This is excellent Jerson, thanks for sharing, and well done on your new business!

Veronica

Jerson Campos
Author

over 10 years ago09/25/13 at 8:25 am (UTC)

Thanks Kirsty and Veronica, really appreciate the support.

Kristin Augusta

over 10 years ago09/25/13 at 9:53 am (UTC)

Jerson -

Thank you for this. I love Paul! I am going to try to get approval to buy him. I love that he is a business professional and a little more narrow than the illustrated characters that Storyline offers - it's illustrated without being "comic" if you catch my drift.

Thank you for sharing - I know you've been working a long time on this and hope it pays off!!!

Kristin Augusta

over 10 years ago09/25/13 at 10:04 am (UTC)

Also - not sure if this can be changed, but when I open up the expressions, the icons are teeny and i have to increase the window to really see what I am looking at - I don't know if that much matters, since you can click on them and preview Alex in full - but I thought I'd mention it since I don't do that with the others.

Looking at all of those expressions, I see why this was so long a process! (I certainly wouldn't know where to begin - so I am not poking you about it!)

Jerson Campos
Author

over 10 years ago09/25/13 at 10:15 am (UTC)

@Krisin,

The space for the expression was only for meant for 12 expressions. I didn't feel like that was enough and created 16 (and would do more if the icons didn't get smaller) , but this includes the ability to choose the side faces too so it brings up the number to 32. I'm not sure why it doesn't have a scroll bar like the poses, but you are right you can still read the text under the expressions and preview them in the side area. Also after you insert the character in the slide and use the expression button on the ribbon bar (under format) you can see the expressions at their full size.

I've actually gotten better now and the process is a lot smoother and faster. I still run into some hiccups every now and then when I try something new.

Rutwin Geuverink

over 10 years ago09/27/13 at 5:23 am (UTC)

Excellent job Jerson, and thanks for sharing your progress and the demo character.

You mentioned that you've wanted to be a comic book artist as a kid, and I myself have had the same inspiration when I was young. Nowadays I only sporadically draw an animal/character on a whiteboard but I never made a serious attempt to "digitize" my drawings (other than scanning it)

Question:

How do you make your drawings on your computer? Do you use a drawing pad? or do you just use a mouse and shapes? or...?

All the best with your newly created website (I like your simple, but catchy logo!)

Rutwin

Jerson Campos
Author

over 10 years ago09/27/13 at 7:03 am (UTC)

Hey Rutwin,

I usually start off drawing a sketch with paper and pencil. When I'm happy with the progress I'll scan it in and then digitize it. Depending on the end product, I'll use photoshop or illustrator. The characters are all created in illustrator.

Jenny Anderson

over 10 years ago09/27/13 at 10:23 am (UTC)

Alex is fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

Jerson Campos
Author

over 10 years ago09/27/13 at 11:16 am (UTC)

Thanks Jenny, He is available for purchase on my site with a few minor updates.

Kay Howe

over 10 years ago09/27/13 at 2:57 pm (UTC)

Great to hear Jerson & Congratulations!

Stefano Posti

over 10 years ago09/28/13 at 9:54 am (UTC)

Very very cool characters,I think I'm gonna buy Alex and Skin for my courses soon!

Excellent design, well done Jerson; your characters are also good for animations; I used Alex in this Crazy Talk sample, and it's ok, don't you think?

http://www.projitmultimedia.com/Alex.mp4

Jerson Campos
Author

over 10 years ago09/28/13 at 4:04 pm (UTC)

Hey Stefano

I think it looks awesome. I've been wanting to pick up a copy of crazy talk. I might after watching what you did.

Jerson

OWEN HOLT
Hero

over 10 years ago10/09/13 at 1:32 pm (UTC)

Any chance of a screenr to walk through the metadata.csv file?

Jerson Campos
Author

over 10 years ago10/09/13 at 2:17 pm (UTC)

When I have some extra time I'll go through it. I did have a lot of problems figuring it out at first too. I think I put in a total of 60 hours before I finally got Alex to work right.

Beth Worthy

over 10 years ago10/09/13 at 9:55 pm (UTC)

Hello Jerson!

It was quite impressive. I really liked your character. Best wishes for your new online store.

Carry on with your work.

Christian Schett

over 10 years ago10/12/13 at 10:46 am (UTC)

Really great work. Thanks a lot for this character, Jerson. I love it

Tony Passwater

over 10 years ago10/13/13 at 12:25 pm (UTC)

Jerson

Great job ... I would like to see three characters ... 1) a short professor looking like Albert Einstein in a whit lab coat. 2) Mechanical technician in a work uniform to teach automotive technical leassons, 3) Female to teach customer service training ...

Ultimately I would like to have characters for the animation storylines

Jerson Campos
Author

over 10 years ago10/14/13 at 11:23 am (UTC)

@ Tony,

Currently I'm working on creating some children characters. I'm having a lot of fun doing the expressions for them. After I'm done with them, I'll do some variety of characters in different fields.

susan causier

over 10 years ago10/15/13 at 10:28 am (UTC)

Great character! Thanks so much for sharing.

Jesse B

over 10 years ago10/30/13 at 12:40 pm (UTC)

Thank you for sharing this, Jerson!

Effective visuals are essintial to making training work on the computer. Feel free to check out this post I made a while back with a free character pack. They are nowhere as complex as Jerson's character fyi...

http://community.articulate.com/forums/p/38162/206907.aspx#206907

Chris Clark

over 10 years ago11/07/13 at 8:12 am (UTC)

EXCELLENT work! I'm very excited to try your character out; thank you for sharing this and for the information on how/where to save the files.

Alex Olvera

10 years ago03/12/14 at 10:25 am (UTC)

hi!!! great job!! but im really interesting to know how i can do my own character and use en articulet in the same way the other characters. I know you offert to created the character for me, but i dont like that, i really like learn how to do for my own way. CAn yoy help me? PD sorry for my english, i dont writte so well. Hi from Gadalajara, Mexico!