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Building a visually expressive narrative

Building a visually expressive narrative - Canva Tutorial

From the course: Storytelling for Data and Design

Building a visually expressive narrative

- [Instructor] Unlike Harry Potter's moving newspapers, the frames of a storyboard are normally static. This is why we had arrows, annotations and instructions to facilitate our visual communication. However, with canvas advanced capabilities, there is still a way to sprinkle some of that magic onto our storyboard. In this lesson, you're going to learn how to use animations and effects directly in canvas to tell stories that are even more visually expressive. Now let's get our hands dirty and play around with a few single frame scenarios. In this first example, we see an animated car chase. However, compared to all the other examples we've seen so far, this one includes animated elements from the canvas library. If you navigate to elements and then type animated cars, you're not only going to see cool graphics, but graphics that perform a specific action. In my hypothetical scenario, all I did was select a background that…

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