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Animation in Storyline through the Morph Transition
Some time ago, PowerPoint came out with a transition called Morph that literally morphs shapes, colors, strokes, graphics, etc. from one slide to the next. In other words, if you build a design on one slide, duplicate the slide, and make changes to the shapes on the second slide, the Morph transition will smoothly deform the shapes from the first slide to the next.
This transition is POWERFUL for animation. I feel that small animations of this kind are especially important for a product like Storyline. In a sense, the ability to build animations is one of the key features that I feel is missing from Storyline. If Articulate would consider adding the Morph transition to Storyline, it would allow users to animate the graphics on the screen with triggers, and I believe that would open up new worlds of possibility with Storyline.
Is this something you all would consider adding to Storyline?
I'm adding my vote. I use the Morph transition all the time in my PowerPoint presentations for live in-classroom training. It makes the presentation much more engaging. I would definitely use this feature in Storyline if it were added.
My vote as well. The morph transition seems like obvious low hanging fruit. It always feels backwards to me when I import an excellent PowerPoint and have to strip out a feature that makes the presentation modern and engaging. It's a step in the wrong direction, design-wise. It's been nearly a year since the initial request here and I'm sorry to hear that there aren't even plans in discussion to add this feature.
Please, please, please add morph.. It changes everything. It is the primary transition I use in powerpoint that literally replaces 90% of the graphic animations I previously used - all in less time and minimal effort. I believe this is a critical miss in Storyboard. Note that the iSpring suite supports morph. I am using iSpring for now until articulate and storyboard can add this feature... the inavailability of morph really adds too much rework for us. Is there a current ETA for this?
Count me in on incorporating Morph to Storyline. I can think of some great uses for that transition.
+1 on this request. Richard Goring just showcased it in the ATD Virtual Conference and it is such a game changer.
+1. I definitely would like to see this feature. It would certainly take our animation to the next level. I suspect the feature has a considerable amount of development time behind it.
We do need new animation effects (e.g. powerpoint 'emphasis') and other animation shortcuts. There's so many competing (& fast) software options out there these days, it's great if Storyline can keep pace with faster building blocks.
Yes, please
SL already has motion paths. I have been able to manually "fake" morphing in SL by
- placing an object
- Use a motion path to move it to another position on a trigger
- Paste a second copy of the original object in the final position over the first object.
- Cut the second object and then paste on the next slide at 0sec with no animation
- Morph!
So, the concept is not undoable. I can imagine the process to make that MORPH event a built-in transition could be something similar? 2 objects on adjacent slides/layers that are linked. The end position of the first object is the start position of the second.
Great idea Jerry! I am inspired.
At Storyline, can we have an update as to whether this is being considered?
Yes. And the magic we can't get from motion paths is the morphing of shape and size. I'd like to have this effect between layers too!
Agreed Paul. Not a morph replacement, but could work in some circumstances.
Chiming in again. Our hospital organization has recently constructed a "Business Ready" website to help local businesses reopen safely with plenty of downloadable information. I was forced to go back to using PowerPoint to build these short courses, and was astonished at how much easier it now is to create polished, modern product, and the morph transition was a significant part of that. I've now gotten several request from our marketing team NOT to use Articulate and to use Powerpoint instead. Very interesting. Please consider adding the Morph transition.
Companies learn the hard way. When customers stop renewing and move to a competitors product, then they wake up.
It's unfortunate that we don't get any decent response from Articulate whether the morph transition is on the roadmap. Makes me feel that Articulate doesn't care about us customers.
All of us need to stop asking, pleading with Articulate to listen. They obviously don't care about us.
I have been able to find a work around by using a layer which duplicate the base, and using exit animations to create a morph-like transition. It’s obviously not ideal and does take a bit of addition time, but in lieu of an actual fix, it works.
More than happy to create a little screen recording of what I’m referring to if this helps anyone?
If it's not too much extra work for you, I'd love to see a screen recording. Others might also be interested to see.
Thanks so much for your willingness to share your work around.
Yes please Troy :)
