Loop animation 3/3: animating characters with cycles like in cartoons

This article describes how we can make animations with Captivate 2019 and 2017 by using cycles of picture as we do it in cartoons. Instead of using the Captivate Effects panel to animate pictures we use each state of a multi-state object as frame. It represents another way to make Captivate animations and can be helpful for people who are interested to animate a character (human or animal) in its different phases.

Loop animation 2/3: animating objects (pictures) in loop

This article describes a way to animate objects (pictures) in loop with Captivate 2019 and 2017. You will find the complete video with other examples at the bottom of the page.

Loop animation 1/3: animating a landscape in loop

This article describes a way to animate a landscape in loop with Captivate 2019 and 2017.

Captivate 2017/19: Make animations and loop animations with advanced actions

This video shows how to make loop animations and various animations with multi-state objects and advanced actions. It shows: – an easier way to animate landscapes in loop with the While loop action compared to Captivate 9, – how to make various loop animations that come in and out of the screen or remain on screen with Multi-state objects and the Effects panel, – how to make animations without using the Effects panel but with several pictures as in cartoons […]

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Make a responsive splash screen (Poster image) with several pictures

Introduction: a few weeks ago I made a video (that you can show again at the bottom of this page) showing a way to make a splash screen (Poster image) for responsive projects. The picture used in this demonstration worked with all the screen sizes but wasn’t responsive. However I mentioned at the end of this video that it was possible to make a responsive splash screen by using Media Queries into the Css file. I hadn’t explained it because […]

How to make an animated Carousel as header like with Bootstrap, for responsive and non responsive projects

This video shows how to make an animated carousel as header for responsive and non responsive projects like we can do it with Html/Css frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation, or JQuery plugins. This video shows: – how to design the pictures, – how to make the carousel by using a Multi-state Object, – how to animate the created pictures with the effects panel, – how to use the While advanced action enabling the final carousel to run in loop indefinitely. […]

How to customize a Splash screen (Poster image) for its customers and mobile / tablet learning solutions

When we develop a WebApp or a mobile application (Android or Apple) we usually develop a screen called “Splash screen” (Poster image) that appears before the loading of the application. This screen identifies the project that is being launched and can display a title, an illustration, a learning objective, a company’s logo or other. With Captivate a screen with a white background and an arrow is generated by default when we publish a responsive project, so this video shows how to customize […]

Loop animation with Captivate 9 / Illustrate a background with a scenery running in loop

I know that a lot of users still use Captivate 9, so I put this video that shows a way to make a loop animation with Captivate 9. The purpose of this video consists in showing how to illustrate a background with a loop animation. The process shows a scenery running in loop and the way to design it: by creating visual cycles within a picture as we do in cartoons, then by applying an animation effect to this created […]

Make animated image captions with rollover and rollout effects / html5 compatible

This video shows how to make animated image captions to display hidden objectives or additional contents to introduce e-learning modules. It shows a way to make rollover and rollout animations to show/hide captions. It is html5 compatible and for desktop projects. The objective from a basic illustration is to apply one or several animations to a Rollover state which will reveal a caption with its content then to apply a reversed animation to a Visited state (used as rollout) to hide […]