Turn That Light Off
Hello! Non-human characters can be a strong choice for your e-learning courses. They're often more popular with users than AI avatars. My characters always come across as a bit grumpy, for some reason... Believe it or not, this is a regular 'pick one' freeform question slide. The character was created using Nano Banana, and I manipulated it in Pixlr to create the different mouth shapes. The animation is achieved through rapid state changes, synchronised to the waveform of each bit of narration. This is controlled by Javascript that I wrote with the help of Claude.ai. The voice is Dave, one of my favourite Storyline AI voices, with the style exaggerated to 75 😀 Switch my demo on here: https://bit.ly/elhc539
The Tool Shed Support Group
I know I always say these challenges are fun but this one was a blast! 😁 The background and heart were created by Articulate (along with the TTS). I tried using Articulate to generate the characters but it couldn't get it right so I used Nano Banana. I uploaded an image and gave it the same style prompt as Articulate's 3D Animation style. To get the different expressions, I just kept prompting Nano Banana to "keep everything the same and make it look (insert emotion here)." Once I downloaded each expression, I opened the image and used MS Designer to remove the background. I stacked the images and overlapped the fade in/out animation so the transition from one expression to another was smoother than changing states.
