Introduction
This animation is about Bob, a normal computer user, having his first steps into coding and making a computer application. With the help of the Internet, he is able to learn by himself how to write code and make it run.
The Animation
The animation is available at here.
The original link to the animation on Vyond is here.
Challenges
- Vyond provided text-to-speech, which features various voices, but some of those may or may not fit the voiced characters in the animation. I had to pick voices that suited the characters in my animation, but I believe there could be voices that fit better. However, it takes time to try out many different voices.
- Vyond also provided layer management. However, it wasn’t very good, so it took time to arrange everything in place. Having too many elements on one scene could also slow down the browser, as Vyond is a web service, so I had to keep the number of elements in each scene at a manageable level.
- I could not set certain text-to-speech voices fixed to my animation, so each time I apply text-to-speech on text, I had to select the correct voice, and again for every time.
- Also, likely due to how Vyond video renderer worked, every time I put the seek in the middle of a certain scene that was different from the scene I’d been working on, Vyond took extra time to render everything and put the seek to the beginning of the new scene, which was time-consuming for me to review everything.
Programming etc. 