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Simple Animator had an issue where if you wanted to do something that happened repeatedly it was cumbersome. Imagine a bird flapping it’s wings with 3 states (frames). You’d have to repeatedly place down those 3 flapping wings in the timeline over and over. This was really slow and error prone. So we added the sequencer! In the actor editor you can create sequences of states that repeat over and over. Placing a sequence keyframe on the timeline meant that the keyframes would automatically rotate for you!

Small update to the simple animator. If you’re using a pressure sensitive screen or stylus you’ll have varied line thickness in the actor editor! I’ve found it gives your lines a much more organic feel. You can try it out now in the Actor Editor, click Draw an Actor to bring up the drawing canvas. This works with iPads with stylus too!

The simple animator workflow up to this point has always meant you had to import your images into the application. There’s a bunch of powerful applications out there for drawing and image editing so we felt it was best if we left that part of creating your assets outside of the application. BUT - we always wished we could do little doodles in the Simple Animator without having to rely on outside applications. And that’s exactly what you can do now! You can draw your own actors (and mouthshapes) right in the simple animator. You don’t have to leave to an external application to do your simple drawing and editing! Click on “Draw an Actor” in the actor studio to check it out!.

For the longest time, the blabberize blog wasn’t given some love. It’s been overhauled and ready for us to write stuff. We’re going to be bringing you all the news and thought peices related to the blabber-verse!

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The following is a list of resources to assist Educators to introduce and lead students and groups of users in projects with blabberize. The official how to guide: Getting Started with Edu.Blabberize and How To Guide This document serves as a living document that we update and maintain. It covers every feature and page on the Edu Blabberize site. If you have a question on how anything works try this document first. Base Lesson Plan Base Lesson Plan - Guide for you and your students. A simple guide and lesson plan to get you started. Feel free to use this as a template to build your own lessons.

What’s new?! What’s new!? This tab is new! We’re in the process of trying to make it more seamless for us to communicate updates and changes to the Blabberize Edu app so that you can get the most value of your time using Blabberize Edu!

What’s new?! What’s new?! Like All of it! This is the craziness we’ve been working on for months! We’re so excited for you to try it! We’re still working on documentation for the Blabberize Simple Animator as well as helpful guides to make all the amazing capabilities of the Simple Animator easy to pick up so you can get to telling your animated stories easily and quickly!

This is the first post on the Blabberize blog. What is Blabberize? Blabberize is a site that makes pictures talk. The wider use of blabberize is a tool for educators to allow students to understand, express, and produce content based on concepts and ideas that are presented in a classroom environment. What’s the vision for Blabberize? Blabberize was created as a tool for telling stories. Behind the scenes we have been working on meaningful ways to quickly create animation to express the stories we want to tell. The site as it exists is the simplest form of this vision.