Using animation

- [Instructor] Animation can be an effective … and engaging tool to help deliver a sequence … using images, graphics, and text. … Any combination of those to help enhance … your audience's understanding. … This is where your storyboarding pays dividends … and you become like a movie director … using them as a guide to position … where and when the actors, … for that of course I mean the elements … that are being animated, play their part. … Let's take a look at animations that we saw … earlier in the course when we looked at layouts. … In this slide, simple shapes were animated … to clarify the areas … that were being spoken about at the time … to direct the eye movement of the viewer … by highlighting them. … It's a very simple technique and very effective. … Larger, full screen animations, like moving panoramas, … use content that extends beyond the screen area … and is slowly animated across the viewing area … and it's a technique that can easily be developed further … to create interesting parallax effects …