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Top 10 tips
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Ten top tips for making great animations:
- TIME LIMIT. When planning your animation, keep in mind the 1-minute time limit, so that you don’t have to end your animation abruptly.
- START TITLES. Make sure your animation has a proper title screen at the start. What’s the title of the animation? And who is it by?
- END TITLES. Make sure your animation has a proper “The End” screen at the end. The audience needs to know when the animation has finished.
- CREDITS. Don’t for get to thank anyone who has helped you!
- DON’T LOOP. Don’t let the animation loop back to the start automatically – otherwise the viewer won’t know when it’s finished!
- USE SOUND. Watching an animation without sound can be… a bit weird! Always add a soundtrack – this almost always improves an animation.
- NICE SOUND. Check the sound level carefully – distorted sounds are horrible! And check that the sounds are clear – a soundtrack recorded in a noisy classroom can sound very bad!
- BE LEGAL. If you use music, you must own the right to use it. We recommend you use royalty-free music, widely available on the Web (try this article).
- SPEECH BUBBLES. If you have speech bubbles, make sure the text in them is BIG, otherwise it WILL NOT BE VISIBLE when the animation is projected on a large screen. Better still, add sound so you don’t need speech bubbles!
- SIZE. Make sure the dimensions of your animation are correct and appear on screen as intended.
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