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Character Bundle makes me sad :(
I work in a healthcare organization and am disappointed that the character bundle package #1 only has people in business clothes. It seems that out of 8 different people, one could have scrubs on. I know that I had access to look at them before purchasing but I got them free with the upgrade. Just sad. I tried to communicate with the enhancements team but the link was broken. More sad. :( Next go around, how about a couple people in casual clothes, a couple in medical clothes and then some in business clothes?
Hi, Deborah -
Tom Kuhlman's October 15 2013 blog post on "Building your e-Learning Skills" refers to this, but you can ungroup the clothing elements of any of the delivered characters...and clothe them however you wish! Here is a sample of the first character with some of the ungrouped elements moved off to the side:
Tom's post has a link to an excellent sample that substituted some spacesuits over the standard/delivered outfits.
Hope this inspires you to create a set of scrubs for your favorite characters! Don't forget the stethoscope!
- Jeff
I think this option is not available any more :-(. I can't ungroup a character. Are there any work arounds?
Hi Simone!
We recently improved the visual quality of characters, which resulted in not being able to ungroup a character anymore. We don't currently have a documented workaround. I hope other community members will chime in if they've found a workaround!
@Deborah: we've got some more characters coming soon
@Jeff: you need a fig leaf to go with those characters
Perfect, guys! I should have known that Tom had a work-around! Unfortunately, I have an Articulate folder in my email with WAAAY too many unopened emails from Articulate.
If you need any customized characters (with logos, specific colors, styles) you can PM me. I don't have any healthcare stock characters on my site yet, but I plan on creating some in the future. They'll work with Studio '13 and Storyline.
I agree, we need more causal characters (maybe not so polished?).
We also need healthcare characters. Is there any chance of having photo sets of healthcare characters?
If you are needing some healthcare characters immediately you can find some at E-learning Brothers.
Of course you would have to do some work on setting up the mood states etc.
Hi Brian and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! Thanks for sharing
I just stumbled upon this site a few days ago.
It offers a very quick way of creating cartoon-style characters with many different poses, emotions, props, clothes etc.
It's very simple, quick and FREE!
http://www.bitstrips.com/create/character
I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I can see there are for me (classroom+audience) no restrictions on the use of the characters I make with this site! but I would appreciate it if someone could explain to me in layman's terms what #4.9 of their Terms of Use means: http://www.bitstrips.com/terms.php
RutwinI need more variety in the photo characters. I teach at the college level, and most of the characters look too old for my students to relate to. I also think more thought should go into what the photo characters are wearing. The character "Rosie" has a bright magenta shirt that clashes horribly with a lot of templates, and then I need to go in and customize. I'd rather not watse time on that. Dress them in neutrals, please.
