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Animations, story-telling, and team building!
I created this course inspired by a previous challenge and a topic request from a client! Built in Storyline with animations from Vyond. I incorporated story-telling and humor to cover the four stages of team building, all wrapped up in an epic quest with knights, wizards and a dragon. Would love to hear what the community thinks!
TeamQuest: The Stages of Team Building
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Love it and it has inspired me.
So Awesome! I manage a team of developers and I have to share this with them all. It was so engaging and fun! We don't have Vyond, so maybe the challenge for them is to mimic this with as much animation as Storyline will allow. Nice work!!
Debbie, that makes sense and it makes the entire course look more unified. Great idea and I am going to try that on a course as well. Very creative!
I saw some of your other posts as well. Is the quiz custom? If you used built in quiz questions, how did you get it to appear only partially on the slide?
Hello! I used a couple of methods for the knowledge checks and quiz.
For the knowledge checks, I added radio buttons and created triggers for each one based on state that led to correct or incorrect layers. Then I added the imported videos (I made in Vyond) to the slide for the feedback. Because these weren't graded and I didn't need to send info to a results slide, it was easier to do it that way.
For the quiz, I inserted the question types through the Slides tab (graded questions). Once the question is on the slide you can move it around, change the fonts, add images, fill in the shapes, etc. - it doesn't have to stay the way the Storyline gives it to you. As long as you don't mess with the triggers it will act like you expect it will and keep track of the answers. The same is true for the results slide, so you can get really creative! And remember, once you have a slide set up the way you want it, just duplicate it and change the content (leaving the mechanics) for other questions.
That's awesome! Thank you for sharing :)
Great example of using storytelling!
Personally I am not a huge fan of Vyond, its a look and feel thing for me, but the story was so compelling I looked right past it. I appreciate the time this would have taken to build. Such good storytelling.
How cool! I'll definitely have to check that out! Thanks so much for the tip!
This is incredible!! May I ask how you animated the people. I'd love to start to learn this skill, but I'm not sure where to start. Is After Effects the only option, or is there something else you can recommend? I'd love to know how you created this.
Hi Kerri: The animation is easier than it looks and definitely something you can learn to do. I used Vyond, but there are other platforms that do the same thing. Using the platform, you can use characters already in the library or design your own. There is a library of actions you can choose for the character and motion paths to allow for movement. The characters will lip sync with either an AI generated voice or a voice you upload. Sound effects and music libraries are provided too. There are several pre-created backgrounds you can choose from to get you started - everything is customizable and can be tweaked. Biggest thing to remember is that you are building "in time" - animating is putting objects in motion based on a timeline. Once you get the basic mechanics down, you're only limited by your imagination!
Wow, really well made, good job
