Hello.
Let's start learning the OND basic functionality in animation as in life before you start doing something
you need to study the instructions by registering on the V.A. website.
You can use the free trial period a 14 day period is enough to complete the course and test the program's
features start by pressing make a video button.
The program is available to create animations in three different styles contemporary style is the perfect
for presentations promotional videos for brands and infographics the business friendly style is very
convenient for storytelling formats creating cartoons corporate videos and preparing training materials.
Whiteboard animation style is suitable for instructions and video explanations.
Let's examine the program's features in detail
a new video project always starts with a template scene.
Delete it first let's name our video
the interface is conditionally divided into several parts.
These are toolbar scene and timeline let's start with an overview of the left side of the toolbar which
is represented by the asset library upload is the option to import your content.
Just click on the import button and choose the files you want to upload
characters write it into styles and inside each style into categories.
You can find characters of different professions nationalities and ages.
Props are also presented in three styles and divided into categories.
Some props have already built in animations and are indicated by the corresponding icon.
Clicking on it allows you to preview the animation
art.
You can add graphs to your video
text.
This is the button for adding text in the process of working with text.
You can change all the parameters and set your font size color and animation
audio allows you to add background music and sound effects from the V.A. library
a middle part of the toolbar includes actions such as undo redo copy paste order for layer order clear
and remove
under the main scene there are buttons zoom out zoom in and fit to screen to adjust the size of the
scene for convenient work with objects
let's move on to the study of the right side of the toolbar if we have assets on the left then on the
right side there are tools for changing the properties of those assets tools vary depending on the selected
asset and its style so if the cursor is on the main scene there are tools for scene control pressing
the first button you can replace the template that is used in your scene the template library is also
divided into categories many of them have preview options so you can see what effects are applied in
any particular template.
In addition any temp element can be customized you can replace objects characters or colors the next
option is background background is presented in two styles business friendly and contemporary choice
of locations and patterns is available
you can make edits to your background the next button allows you to change the background color you
can choose a color from the proposed collections or you can set out color from the palette or choose
a color with the eyedropper pipettes indicating the one that you like next scene transition button
you can choose effects and setup timing for it
now press the Preview button to see the results
for deleting the scene transition effect use the button remove
next element camera.
Using it you can crop the scene and place only part of the picture in the frame.
Let's see how our video will look now.
In addition you can add camera movement by pressing the corresponding button and the second frame will
appear the orange frame is the starting position of the camera.
The yellow frame is the ending position you can put the frame in the position you need.
Andrej size it's now.
The video contains camera movements camera settings allow you to set delay and duration of camera movements.
This can be done in the camera settings or directly on the timeline.
We will consider the timeline in more detail later
the last icon on the toolbar is the scene settings.
Here you can set the duration of a scene manually.
You can also use the auto fit option.
This option allows you to set the scene duration automatically taking into account the duration of all
effects applied in the scene.
When the prop is selected the right side of the toolbar changes to functions for props.
You can replace the prop
for contemporary style props.
You can change the color for business friendly props.
This option is partly available
the option mask is available for some props props or characters can be placed inside the mask of the
prop
next.
You can apply enter and exit effect for each prop
if you want your prop to move.
Use the emotion button and adjust the delay and duration settings
the last button allows you to set the exact coordinates size rotation and alternatively you can mirror
the prop if needed
most of the listed functions can be found in the right click menu
here.
You can also find the group function.
This allows you to select several objects and grouped them.
Now they can be scaled together moved as one group
if necessary.
You can double click on a group and change the location of one of the objects in that group.
Then click outside the group to exit the group.
You can set enter and exit effects to the entire group in order to UN group the objects choose on group
in the right click menu
select a character.
And now the functions of the right part of the toolbar have changed the replace function allows you
to change the character by maintaining their original position location size and action
the next button.
Action opens the actions menu
some actions are static like poses and some actions have built in animations.
You can search for an action by entering a keyword
all actions are accompanied by pre configured emotions but you can change the expression and direction
of the characters face.
You can add voice acting to the character and synchronize the movement of the character's mouth with
sound furthermore as with the work with the prop feature you can add enter and exit effects and motion
paths for the character
to create your character.
Click the character icon from here.
We have two options.
The first is to change or alter an existing character to do this in the menu of the selected character
use copy and edit character option.
The second option allows you to create a new character using the corresponding icon.
Now you can create your character step by step
name the character
to use the new character in the video.
You need to use my library icon
after adding text elements to the scene.
You can fully customize it
enter exit effects and motion path are also available
when working with charts.
In addition to standard functions the chart controls are displayed on the right side of the toolbar.
You can change the numerical values change the color of the charts and customize the display.
Use the preview option to evaluate the result.
At the bottom of the interface is a timeline to open the timeline.
Press the arrow sign.
The timeline displays all of the information about your video including scenes and their duration scene
transition effects effects applied to props and characters actions as well as sound effects voice acting
and audio used in the video to enter and exit effects are showed by a green bar the movements of props
and characters as well as camera movement are shown by a blue bar.
You can also increase the timeline zoom to work out the time settings more precisely especially when
you work with scenes that are short in duration.
You can make all changes directly on the timeline change the duration of the scene effect duration or
delay
if you click on the plus button you will have access to the options choose template.
We had to look into that option earlier.
Continue last seen or add a blink scene
you can manually change the sequence of scenes simply by dragging and dropping.
Now let's see the result.
The next function is audio and the corresponding track on the timeline.
In fact beyond allows you to add more than one audio track.
There is a library of background music and sound effects.
Let's add both a sound effect and background music to our project
to work with the audio file.
Use the right click menu if necessary.
You can cut only the necessary fragment from the audio file.
Then you can simply drag this file to the desired location on the timeline
in the settings.
You can adjust the volume of the audio
and add a fade effect at the beginning or at the end.
To record the voice acting you can use the additional functionality of the program go into the audio
library and click on the microphone icon on the left.
You may also choose the option text to speech.
Actually this option unfortunately often sounds very unnatural and robotic.
Now you can synchronize direct speech with the movement of the character's mouth
beyond also offers the services of voice acting professionals for an extra fee.
Let's see the result.
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to consolidate the knowledge gained.
We recommend that you independently reproduce all of the examples and techniques demonstrated in this
lesson after this continued to the next lesson.