Power Up Your PowToon Studio Project电子书

Power Up Your PowToon Studio Project

Table of Contents

Power Up Your PowToon Studio Project

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Free access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Structure of a PowToon Studio Project

Why do animations work?

When could I use a PowToon?

The renaissance of storytelling

Structure of a PowToon

Features and the balance of simplicity

The magic formula for mixing the elements

Cognitive overload

Adding the power of surprises and laughter to the mix

PowToon licenses

What is the perfect length for a PowToon?

Scripting

Summary

2. Getting the Best from Color in PowToon

PowToon and the color wheel

Ways of combining colors

Analogous color schemes

Monochromatic color schemes

Triad color schemes

Complementary color schemes

Split-complementary color schemes

Why is all this important?

Colors in culture

Color blindness

Summary

3. The Dashboard

Creating an account, logging in, and the dashboard

Navigating the dashboard

The great big CREATE button!

Editing an existing PowToon

Playing an existing PowToon

Deleting and duplicating a PowToon

Searching/filtering based on project names

Renaming a PowToon

Changing the project description and tagging your PowToon

Publishing your PowToon Studio project

Downloading to a local .mp4 file

Sharing PowToons

The transcript option

Summary

4. Getting Started

So let's begin!

The PowToon Studio screen

The timeline

The play options

Slide navigation area

The working area

Creating your PowToon!

Another way to edit

Summary

5. Storyboarding and Scripting

What is a storyboard?

Why is it so important to create a storyboard?

The five-step model for storytelling

Telling a story

Make sure that you actually have a story to tell!

Focus on the story – everything else is unwanted "filler"

Remember that the story has to engage your audience and not you!

What do you write?

The commercial example

The social example

The personal example

Rapid prototyping in PowToon

Summary

6. Backgrounds, Characters, and Props

Backgrounds

The Edge feature

Keep it simple

Changing the perspective with backgrounds – cropping and magnifying

Building your own background from the existing PowToon assets

Mixing and matching backgrounds

Changing a background for emphasis

Characters

Character size and perspective

Character orientation

Custom characters

Using the character as a prop

Parody

Props

Manipulating props

Adding your own props

Image holders, markers, and shapes

Image holders

Markers

Shapes

Manipulating characters and props on the stage

Prop and character orientation

The Grid feature

The Swap feature

The Split feature

Moving characters and props around the stage

The right-click options

How to construct and compose your overall image

The Golden Ratio

The rule of thirds

Remember your audience

More information on images

The .swf files

Deleting images

The Media Search option

Summary

7. Animations, Animating, and Transitions

Animating objects

The Hand option

Scrubbing a slide to view the animation

Animated objects

Using animations to enhance the meaning of the content

Transitions (animations between slides)

Summary

8. Text

A tiny bit of theory – serif versus sans serif

How to insert text

Using the animated text options

Text placement

Text size

Creative use of text

Speech and thought bubbles

Text angling

Style strings

Mixing text sizes and styles in leading characters

Moving the text in and out of a PowToon Studio slide

Top text tip

Summary

9. Voiceover and Music

Getting started

The Sound Manager options

Voiceover

Import File

Record

Inserting music tracks

Muting and deleting sound

Important considerations with music and voiceover

Volume and relative levels

Choosing your music

Do you actually need a voiceover?

Creating a voiceover that you do not keep!

Voiceover recording tips

Summary

10. Sharing and Enhancing Your Project

Exporting your project

What can you do with your PowToon now?

Summary

A. The Latest Features

Action buttons

Preview and Publish buttons

Undo and Redo

Index