VECTORWORKS - CREATING CUSTOM WHITEBOARD ANIMATIONS

Learn to read and interpret whiteboard scripts to craft leading vectors for fitness animations, illustrating a life cycle of workout recovery and practical recovery tips.

Learn to translate illustrator artwork into a whiteboard animation that shows a life cycle from gym progress to daily routines, with timing, voiceover, and messages on sleep and hydration.

Learn how to craft a precise animatic that synchronizes whiteboard animation with voiceover, using beats, pauses, and timing to plan each drawing step.

Learn how to download and install Inkscape, navigate its free cross-platform interface, and use core tools like selection and snap settings to prepare vector drawings.

learn to use the selection tool to move around the canvas, scale and rotate the image, adjust height, and access options to share or transform the image.

Master bezier curves in Vectorworks by using points and lines to draw open and closed shapes, like a ship, and learn to select, move, and finalize the path.

This lecture shows how to edit a path by moving points created with the tool, and use handles to influence the path for custom whiteboard animations.

Practice exercise one combines selection tools and layers to import an image, set up a reference layer, create and manage vector layers, and trace a reference to build a drawing.

Learn to apply fill and stroke to vector shapes in vectorworks by creating a closed rectangle, adjusting border and fill colors, stroke width, dash patterns, and basic gradient concepts.

Learn to use the dropper tool to pick colors from objects and images, control color influence on selected elements, and build precise color palettes for whiteboard animations.

Explore how to create and adjust gradients in Vectorworks, using linear gradients to control color transitions and reference images for color matching.

Follow along exercise two by importing a reference image, sketching and tracing with layers, refining lines, and applying morphing effects to create a bicep animation, saving different versions for practice.

Discover how to set up video studios for creating custom whiteboard animations, designed to keep you encouraged and prepared for what you will see next.

Learn to download and use video scribe for whiteboard animations, including free trial options, vectors, and the script-to-animatic workflow.

Explore the VideoScribe interface and default settings, including emergency backup, transition timing, image quality, and essential tools for creating whiteboard animations.

Explore what each icon does in Vectorworks' whiteboard animations, including how to add voiceover and soundtrack by recording or importing, preview on the timeline, and share or download.

Explore different drawing tools and hand options for whiteboard animations, choose and animate a hand, import custom assets, crop backgrounds for a professional look, and apply various effects.

Change the background using the background option, choose from colors or enter a hex value to set the background, with a white background preferred for white strokes.

Learn to add your first image to the canvas and timeline, import from your files, and adjust position, zoom, and basic controls for building a slide.

Learn to add multiple elements to the canvas, scale and position them, and manage layer order in the timeline, including replacing elements on the timeline.

Learn to replace elements on the timeline by using the element property, select a new image, and swap it in to create custom whiteboard animations.

learn to add and format text using the text tool, explore basic font options, import fonts from your computer, and adjust color, size, and alignment via the elements properties.

Master camera positioning in Vectorworks by locking the camera, setting current positions, and avoiding unwanted panning to keep artwork centered on the canvas during preview and timeline playback.

Master element properties to change images, set slide timing, and adjust hand drawings and transitions, aligning the animation sequence with the project's animatic.

Explore morphing techniques in Vectorworks by moving and morphing vector shapes between frames, adjust timing to zero for instant transitions, and craft smooth, professional whiteboard animations.

Create a vector-based whiteboard animation by building on your animatic, importing voiceover and images, and timing scenes with draw hand transitions and morphing.

Create custom whiteboard animations in Vectorworks by arranging scenes, adjusting timing and keyframes, and maintaining font consistency while previewing, tweaking, and rendering final outputs.

Discover how to recover from delayed muscle soreness with progressive overload, balanced diet, hydration, sleep, and consistency. Apply tips to ease back into exercise after breaks and maintain progress.

Learn to showcase your whiteboard animation work professionally by leveraging social media, influencers, client care, and targeted outreach to studios and events.

This final project guides you through preparation, script interpretation, illustration, voiceover synchronization, and producing a complete whiteboard animation you can customize.