Want to cre­ate OER-com­pli­ant videos with ani­mated char­ac­ters, but don’t have any pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence in video ani­ma­tion? Then you’ve come to the right place.

In this tooltime, we intro­duce the ani­ma­tion tech­nique known as rig­ging. This involves equip­ping illus­trated fig­ures with a dig­i­tal “frame­work” so that indi­vid­ual body parts can be moved and ani­mated with­out hav­ing to redraw each move­ment. This makes it easy to cre­ate ani­mated char­ac­ters for OER-com­pli­ant videos, even with­out pro­fes­sional video pro­duc­tion expe­ri­ence. You will learn how to cre­ate lively edu­ca­tional videos for teach­ing with min­i­mal effort.

In addi­tion to tech­ni­cal and design-related aspects, you will also learn what needs to be con­sid­ered from a legal per­spec­tive when using the respec­tive tools.