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Custom Characters?
We would like to have a series of courses that feature a specific person in our organization as the "host." I know that we could just shoot 200 poses of her and insert the shots into the course as pictures.
But is there any way that we could create a custom character set so that out character photos appear in the "insert character menu" and our developers can see them in the character viewer? Ideally, we want our novice Storyline users to be able to choose our character and browse poses (headshot, torso, full) just as they would be able to do with purchased characters.
If it's possible to do this, in which directory would we put the photo files (JPEG or PNG)?
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Alisa.
A personal media/asset library is a feature request idea that we've heard from other community members as well. I've added your thoughts to the report as we continue to track this request and so that we can share any updates with you here.
I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.
Hi Leslie and others,
I'm a complete new member and user of articulate 360. last Monday I've got the access to the software. I started looking/following some movies and tutorials on how to use articulate 360. The first thing that came in mind was "how can I create own custom made characters?" I think it can realy make an e-learning more powerfull. We create only e-learning for our own employees, so if we can create our own characters, our employees can identify themselves much more with the e-learnings.
It would be a great update!
Hey there Paul!
Thanks for stopping by to voice why this would be beneficial to you! As Leslie mentioned, other community members have chimed in about this, so we continue to track requests, and I've added your vote to the report! So now that you're subscribed to this thread, you'll be notified of any new news!
Oh, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! 😊
Hi Becca,
Just want to re-iterate. Working in New Zealand and wanting our aboriginal people represented well in our online learning. Not likely to be very useful outside of NZ, so wanting to create our own characters. The OP is from 6 years ago. I understand priorities, but can you let me know how high/low priority this is for you so I know how to prioritise my own work? Thanks!
Hi Hannah!
We are currently creating more photogenic and illustrated characters for our Content Library, but I don't have an exact timeline to share.
Are you looking for photogenic and/or illustrated characters? If you have any examples that you'd like us to look at, feel free to attach them to this discussion. I'll be sure to share them with my team.
Hi Lauren,
We are wanting illustrated characters as it is not appropriate to use any photos of Maori (our native people) as it is customary to not show photos once someone has passed away for a period of time (which would be hard to manage online unless we know the person has passed and we are ok to use the images). If it is illustrated then it will protect those customs.
Some examples below:
https://tabisozai.net/en/maori/
https://www.twinkl.ae/resource/nz2-e-5-maui-and-the-giant-ika-powerpoint-powerpoint
I understand that this is probably a unique request in some regards, but I know that more and more schools/government in NZ are using Articulate.
Just food for thought regarding representing a greater diversity of people (you already have many cultures included),
Thank you so much, Hannah, for adding these details and links! I'm happy to share them with my team in the form of a feature request. I'll be sure to keep you updated on the progress of this feature!
Just chiming in here that this would be a great feature to be able to upload characters and make them sortable like in the Character tab. I know that currently you can upload "cutout characters" from several websites, but to my knowledge they just load in as states rather than being able to view in the character window.
The present diversity is appreciated but particularly when designing for international audiences there are some gaps. This is also useful as there's an uptick in DEI trainings and the need for diverse groups of characters that may not be captured in the content library.
I agree with Coniqua about the ability to upload, in our case, brand-specific characters to our own library. It would be nice to upload them and assign the same parameters (positive, gesture or negative, annoyed, etc.)
Hi Brian,
Thanks for sharing your comments with us! We are currently tracking a feature request for a personal Media/Asset Library where you can upload and edit your own characters. We appreciate your feedback, and we’ll be sure to update this discussion if this makes it on our feature roadmap.
