Making animals fly?

[SusuJuju]

I’ve seen it in some Episode stories. They have birds flying, it looks so realistic and it looks amazing!

Does anyone know how they do it?

P.S. I’ve got three bird overlays with different flying positions. (It’s only a matter of directing in the script)

[JemU776]

Guide to animating and using overlays:

A Guide to Using & Animating OVERLAYS

Don’t forget to LIKE if this guide helps you! OVERLAYNAME is the overlay name x coordinate is where the overlay is placed on the screen horizontally (side to side) y coordinate is where the overlay is placed on the screen vertically (up and down) % is the scale size T stands for time in seconds # means “number” NOTE: When you test your story and move your overlay around, you will see 2 codes that look something like this (examples): @overlay OVERLAYNAME shifts to 196 223 @overlay OVERLA…

Guide to layers and character placement:

HOW TO: Move Characters / Overlays to the Layers

Moving to the layers means something or someone can be in front or behind character or overlay. You can use as many numbers as you want: -100 to 100 (probably even more) CHARACTERS: Commands: @CHARACTER moves to layer # @CHARACTER spot % X Y in zone # at layer # [image] This picture is an example to show how numbers working. Entering characters (@CHARACTER enters from left to screen right) are always in front of everything (unless you move other characters or overlays to the layers) If y…

These guides will help you on your writing journey!
P.S You can also view the episode guides, and other helpful tips posted by Episode on overlays:

Advanced Directing: Overlay Animations

Also, this amazing website dedicated to helping people with directing:

Directing Tips & Help

Good luck with everything!

[Xyrisse]

Did you ever figure out how to do it? I was wondering the same thing except I don’t even know where to start, nonetheless know how to get/make bird overlays.

Also, do you happen to remember what stories had them?

[Sydney_H]