Is it possible to create Animation by Storyline?

Jun 06, 2012

Hi, All,

Is it possible to create Japanese Kenji or Chinese Characters Strokes Order Animation by Storyline? Please refer to the following video. Any idea? Really appreciate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoyQfWwJjCY

Thanks.

Tee

3 Replies
Steve Flowers

There are few things in this example you'd be able to replicate closely using Storyline. You'd have a really hard time replicating this in Storyline since the animation tools in SL are so limited. Masks aren't supported, though you might be able to do this with a punched overlay. You'd need to do significant pre-production work. Even with that pre-work, it wouldn't look right in my opinion.

This isn't really the task Storyline was built for. Here's how I'd recommend attacking this:

1 - Animate each character build using another tool and export as video. There are a few tools that might help, I'd probably use Anime Studio Pro or even Flash for this one since both tools support masks and tweens.

2 - Import the video into Storyline if you want to take advantage of assembly, interactions, and distribution using Storyline. You can then use timeline triggers and layers to control advancing the video or tie in some sequenced drag and drop activities for building characters.

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