Making Videos

Making Your Animated Video on Spartan Flash Animate is super easy and here's how you will do it.

First press the MAKE A VIDEO Button on the header

QUICK TIP :  Hold shift and press Make a Video to Open a New Window instead of Being opened at the same Window. This is for multitasking. Press X from the titlebar to Close the secondary Window. 

Press the Spartan Flash Animate Button from the homepage to refresh the Video List

Then select any theme you prefer. For this tutorial i will pick Comedy world. But you can play around on the other ones. 

The Comedy world theme is the default theme

Just wait and then the Video maker will open anytime after the bar gets full. You always can go back to the home screen by pressing Home at the top

And there you go the video maker is now open

CHANGING THE BACKGROUND

Pre-installed backgrounds :

By default Spartan Flash Animate has backgrounds pre-installed. You obviously see it at the left pane. Just select any of the backgrounds from here which is highlighted.

Press any on there and you changed the background

Custom Backgrounds :

You can port your own backgrounds you get from the internet or the files you have on Spartan Flash Animate.

To do this follow the steps 

Press the Theme selector button which has the drop down button

Select Your Library and there you go. You see your custom backgrounds

ADDING CHARACTERS 

Like changing the background. Adding characters is also easy on SFA

1. Press the People icon 

2. Select any of the characters you wanted to put

3. There you go. You added a character

CHANGING THE CHARACTER'S MOVEMENT AND EXPRESSION

Changing the characters is easy on Spartan Flash Animate

1. Press on the character you wanted to change it's movement or expression

2. Select any action you wanted To Apply on the character you picked. On the left pane you will see other actions other than the default one which is poses. You can make the character dance or Anything else

3. You now changed the Actions of the character you selected

4. Press The Button which has the label of the character's expression to select an Expression whether happy, angry, sad or anything else.

While selecting it may lag a bit because it's loading the expressions. But this is normal since Spartan Flash Animate has a lot of Expressions pre-installed . 

5. Congratulations you now have the character's expression changed

MAKING THE CHARACTER WALK

If you already know how to make the character move and change it's expression. This time you will learn how to make them walk

1. Like how you change the character's expression select the character you wanted to make it walk on the scene 

2. Press the walking icon on the left pane

3. Select when to do current action only or walk. For this tutorial we will select walk

4. Drag the character on which one it should go

5. Add a new scene by pressing the + icon 

6. There you go. The character walked. You can preview it if you wish by selecting preview from the top

CUSTOMIZING THE BACKGROUND

If you already know how to Change the background. Customizing the background is also easy on SFA

1. Click on anywhere inside of the scene on a empty space

2. You can use the commands from the left pane whenever to change the color or anything else. You also can change the duration of the scene like setting the duration to 60 seconds, Make some effects by opening the effects tab or more

3. For this tutorial i will be changing the colors of the background. Take note not all backgrounds support color changing

4. That's it we now customized the background