PE8_Creaza

The Next step in making your cartoon with Creaza is to add and manipulate characters. You can choose from characters portrayed in different positions, actions, or directions. Just like choosing backgrounds you must click, drag and drop your characters on to your slide. Once your character is placed on the slide you will see that a box with handle spots appears around your character. Those handles allow you to resize your character by dragging it outward or inward to make it larger or smaller. You can also change the direction of your character by pulling the handles all the way to the opposite side which will flip the character horizontally. After you have added a character you can click on the creatures tab and add an animal or a non-descript creature to your slide. Creatures are manipulated in the same way that characters are. You can add text boxes to your slide to offer the storyline of your cartoon, or you can add thought bubbles to your characters to allow them to “think” out your story, or a “speech” bubble to have your characters talk with text. You can change the font, size, and color of your text by clicking in the formatting palette. You can also change the background color of your text boxes and thought bubbles. You can also draw your own objects with the line tools, rectangle tools, elipse tool, and the free hand pen tool.  You can also add cartoonist effects by clicking on the cartoonist effects tab and dragging and dropping actions so to speak onto your slide. An example of this would be the puff of smoke behind a character to portray the character running away.