Modifying characters

Hi Michael! Glad that you found this thread helpful!  Thanks for sharing

Re anyone who is having problems with either the white mark around the next and/or losing clarity when converting to another format ... use SnagIt to capture the shot you want then edit elsewhere.  This is the most reliable method I've found so far of retaining quality and sizing etc.

If you don't want to pay for SnagIt (which is an excellent tool in itself) then Jing does the basics for free.

Thanks for sharing Simom I'm a SnagIt fan myself.

Hi I'm still new to Articulate Storyline, but am really enjoying the power and creativity it gives me in creating courses.

Some have asked in this thread about other characters. I suggest checking out http://www.elearningart.com/Illustrations_s/46.htm They have tons of characters in hundreds of poses both front and back. It isn't free, but I think the price is reasonable for the amount of material that is available.

They also have a good selection of pre-built backgrounds

Hi Erin! I'm not sure if Paul is still active in the forums. I did a search to see if he ever shared a link, but I'm not seeing one. Hopefully someone will be able to assist you. There is a similar thread here if you'd like to take a look.

Erin:

You might want to check:

http://elearningtemplates.com/

They have a lot of Articulate character sets and individual .png images.  They are a great source and reasonably priced for what they offer.

For anyone interested in creating their own characters or modifying existing wmf characters check out this free addon for powerpoint 2010/2013 at http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~pptlabs/ Amongst other things it has a shapes library which means you can import a wmf file, ungroup it and change colours or save sets of expressions etc within powerpoint and then re-add those saved shapes of eyes, nose mouth etc to other characters in another presentation. It does amazing things with animations and highlights, captions and audio etc and is a real asset for those working with both powerpoint and articulate storyline and/or studio products. 

I've pasted just a small sample of a character I have changed using the shapes library from pptlabs. I did these very quickly but you can see the idea. This way you can make your own character sets and import them as images into storyline and use the change states options to change expressions and poses. I hope this helps someone.

Thanks for sharing Brent and BJ!

Ok, so for all you GD's or Illustrator users out there, you can take that EMS file into Illustrator too! What I did was ungrouped once or twice, NOT three times...too many tiny pieces! Just ungroup once or twice, bring a couple characters into Illustrator from PowerPoint with CTRL C and CTRL V. You may have to ungroup again once in Illustrator because it automatically regroups the Illustration. But Illustrator is a much more powerful tool than PowerPoint for this kind of thing. Once you are in there, you have maximum control for altering the illustration. Do whatever you want. You can take the shirt off of one character and slide it onto the other one. Just keep the character sizes  the same and line them up so it's easy to swap things out. Happy editing!

Thanks Nathaniel for sharing that here.