Forum Discussion
Characters
Hello,
Has there been thought around adding characters that represent children and/or youth? I did find young adults, but no younger representation.
Thank you,
Martha Garzon
- JustinPhillips-Community Member
While I don't personally have a use for this feature, I endorse its inclusion. Many Articulate customers either work in the healthcare field or have clients who are in that field. Having a few child characters would be useful for them. It goes with out saying that the same is true for primary and secondary education customers.
- HollyKeelCommunity Member
I am in the same boat! I work in education and there are no child characters available. The course I am running is primarily for early education teachers so it would be most helpful if these can be added!
Hiya, Martha! Thanks for sharing your needs here. I'll pass along your experience to the folks in charge of character creation!
- NinnaGjedste226Community Member
Hi Crystal.
I would like to know if there's any way to see if "the folks in charge of character creation" has replied to the request for younger illustrated characters in SL?
My specific needs are children ages 0-16.
Thanks, Ninna
Hi Crystal,
Thanks for reaching out!
I don’t currently have any updates, but be sure to stay tuned to the What's New page of our site for any news on that front.
If there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know!
- MartinEvans-d2aCommunity Member
Wait! Did I miss something? Are characters in the image library now available for Rise?
Hi Martin! Sorry if this discussion was confusing.
Rise uses the images from Content Library, but not characters. It looks like Martha was asking specifically about the types of characters available in Content Library. Tell me more about how you'd use a character in Rise!
- LeahHemeonCommunity Member
Found this old discussion when searching for information about using characters in Rise. Thought I'd try reigniting it. Please let me know if I should post elsewhere.
I'm using Rise to build an overview that will happen before peer-led training. As part of that overview I need to introduce the high-level process. I'm using the process interaction in Rise and am giving context by using a simple scenario. "Meet Carlos... he's... let's see how he does this..." kind of thing. I'd love to use characters to get some continuity in the images I include in the mini-scenario/process. Sadly they're not available.
Thanks, Leah and Justin. We haven't add the photographic or illustrated characters to Rise yet, but you could add them to a Storyline course and add that as a block into Rise. You could also insert into Storyline and choose "Save as picture" to use that character as an image in your Rise courses.
- JasonThompson-fCommunity Member
Upvote for more age diversity in Characters! I get that it may be hard to have young children do the necessary poses, but perhaps something like an 8-12yr and a 13-18 range with three or four models for each would be great for us. Also, there are very limited 60+ characters (three I believe, 1 female) a couple more would be great. (Developing for age-friendly community training, healthcare, etc.). Thanks!
- EricAndersenCommunity Member
I agree, the company I work for is in healthcare with people as young as infants up to elderly! This would be a great support for our training.
Thanks!
Thanks for chiming in with your feedback, Jason and Eric! It helps us to know how in-demand these characters are.
- LeahHemeonCommunity Member
Another vote to continue adding characters with diversity - ages for sure but also skin colour and ethnicity. We have a lot of Asian employees at our client locations and having more who represent various cultures would be amazing.
- DakotaBrown-e7bCommunity Member
Also, please include different body fat percentages for inclusivity! We want to see people who look like us. Please use larger and smaller bodies.