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Teaser: Storyline "Chat To Animation"
🚀 Big things are coming to Storyline 360.
Last month at the Articuland Summit in Boston, our COO Brian Gil gave a sneak peek at something our team’s been quietly working on: AI-powered animations inside Storyline.
We've been calling this feature "chat to animation" internally. The idea is simple but powerful: talk to Storyline's AI Assistant about how you want your slide to animate, and it helps bring your vision to life.
The attached video shows a little preview of this feature in a fun "Feline Overlord" themed Storyline course. 🐱👇
On the first slide, I entered this prompt into the AI Assistant chat:
“Can you suggest an animation scheme for this slide?”
It broke down the suggested animation effects for each object, then asked if I want to create a trigger for them.
After responding, "yes", the AI Assistant wrote the JavaScript code to create the animations and automatically associated it with the "When timeline starts" event. It also surfaced a "Preview" button that jumps into Storyline's preview mode so I could see the animation in action.
Notice that the AI Assistant window stays visible during preview. This means I can refine the animation while previewing to home in on the exact look and feel I want.
In this case, I wanted to delay the slight "pulse" of the yellow next arrow to begin after the image and text animations completed, so I entered:
“Great! Can you delay the animation on the next arrow a bit so that it starts after the other objects have animated in?”
The AI revised the JavaScript in the trigger and immediately replayed the slide again so I could see the change and tweak further if needed. That ability to preview, refine, and replay instantly is what makes this experience feel so magical.
If you'd like to see the published course in action, you can find it on Review 360: Chat To Animation Teaser | Review 360
This feature should land in private beta soon, and we'd love to get your feedback. If you want to help shape how this evolves, email beta@articulate.com to get started!
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Wow — this looks incredible! 🤯 The ability to chat your way to custom animations directly inside Storyline feels like a total game-changer. Being able to preview, refine, and replay instantly right in the AI Assistant window is such a thoughtful touch — it really bridges creativity and control beautifully. Huge kudos to the Articulate team for pushing Storyline into this next era of interactive design!
Real designers don't want AI-created crap, Articulate. We want to be able to make things and do things ourselves, not outsource our thinking or our designs to a machine. Stop listening to your marketing department and listen to your users.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I totally get where you’re coming from. Creativity and control are at the heart of what makes Storyline special, and that’s not something we ever want to compromise.
The goal with AI isn’t to replace designers or automate creativity, but to act as a sidekick that helps you move faster and focus on the fun parts of course design. Especially for newer Storyline users, it can help them unlock features and workflows that more experienced designers already know by heart.
And looking ahead, many of the chat-enabled features we’re exploring are less about the creative side and more about automating the tedious, time-consuming tasks that eat into development time — things like repetitive course updates and maintenance.
Feedback like this is exactly what helps us strike the right balance and make sure we’re building tools that amplify your creativity, not replace it.
