A user friendly desktop app for creating illustration based engaging e-learning courses with customizable storyboards, backgrounds and detailed character development.

1. HSTC2305
DESKTOP APP TO CREATE STORYBOARD AND
E-LEARNING COURSES
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3. DESKTOP APP TO CREATE STORYBOARD AND E-LEARNING
COURSES
Situation Challenge
A silicon valley based startup in eLearning domain looking Need to develop realistic characters of different
to provide an illustration based engaging, user-friendly ethnicities. Apply features of one ethnic character to
eLearning authoring tool to create storyboards, for users other characters of different ethnicities.
having no programming knowledge Attire implementation- Create different combinations of
attire for the characters and apply same attire part on
characters of different ethnicities and culture
Harbinger Solution
Maintain the state of character and background while
Leveraging Adobe Flash detailed customization of the exporting to desktop and using same for importing to
characters including facial expressions, ethnicity, cloths and storyboard, without a database
positions etc., was carried out. This helped achieve a rich UI
and a gave a realistic look and feel to the characters.
Divided attire into two parts- Upper clothing and lower clothing. Technologies & Tools
All upper clothing and lower clothing files are again divided into
constant number of parts. Whenever any attire changes, it will Adobe AIR 3.0
replace all the parts of old with new attire. Adobe Flash Builder
Created standard xml structure with required properties of Photoshop
object and updating file with every user action CS4
(add, delete, update)
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Benefits
End users could easily create characters with minute detailing, save it in library BOTTOM LINE
and use it in storyboard. In short, end users could create an engaging eLearning A user friendly desktop app for creating
course without the need of any programming. illustration based engaging e-learning
courses with customizable storyboards,
The application provided various attire combinations to develop unique look and
backgrounds and detailed character
feel of characters to facilitate diverse user needs and storyboard requirements development.
End user could capture close ups with detailed features and expressions of
characters resulting in a realistic storyboard
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