Toondo is a very easy online cartoon creator. With this tutorial, you are going to learn how to use it.
1. First, open this link in a new window:
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2. Now, click on the Register button, on the top right corner of the screen.
2. You will get this window. Click on the Sign up for Tondoo button
4. Now you have to fill the information as follows:
Username: lasalle + the name of your group + your class number (Don't use CAPS or spaces between words, e.g. lasalledaredevil28)Password: repeat the username
Email ID: I recommend you to use your @lasallechiclana.com email address
Press the Register button
5. Now write your username and password and press the Sign In button
6. Now you are again on the Home page. Press the Toondo Maker buttom on the top right corner of the screen.
7. When you click on the button, another window opens automatically.
It will ask you to select your layout.
Choose the three-part one.
8. On the top of the screen there is a series of buttons. Press them in order to add characters, backgrounds, objects and text bubbles. You don't need the other three.
Remember that this strip is just to train. You don't have to make a real story
just choose the characters, backgrounds and objects you like
and write some words in the text bubbles.
9. On the bottom of the screen there is another series of buttons. Don't use number 1. Number two (Shrink) is to make characters and objects small. Number three (Enlarge) is to make characters and objects big. Number 4 (Clone) is to make a copy of a character of an object. Number 5 (Flip) is to reverse a character or an object, like in a mirror. Numbers 6 and 7 (Rotate) are to make characters rotate in one direction or another. Number 8 (To Front) is to put an image from behind to the front and Number 9 (To Back) is to put an image from the front to behind another. The last one (Delete) is to make an object dissapear from the comic strip.
10. Moving the characters, backgrounds, etc into the strip you can create any situation you like.
11. When you finish, press the Main Menu button, and then click on the Save button.
12. Use your username as Title, Description and Tag.
Click on the Let others Redoo square, so nobody can change your comic strip.
Then, on the option section, make sure that the Publish to the world option is marked.
Finally, click on the Publish button.
13. Now you have to wait a few seconds, and they show you your comic strip. Click on the open book image so we can create a comic book.
14. Move your strip from the small picture to the open book. Then press the Publish button.
Congratulations! You created your own online comic strip.
If you have time, you can do another comic strip (repeat the process from step 6). I'm sure the second one will be even better than the first!
