Text bubbles

[obtusity]

Dear NCH Software, on the Express Animate front page, it mentions "Create animated text and text bubbles".

 

Just a point of clarification - do the "text bubbles" refer to custom shapes and/or modified ellipses (I'm OK with that), or is there another option somewhere that I've missed?

 

Thanks for listening!

 

And thank you for a fun little animation program to play with and recommend as a freebie!

I like the interface and implementation, more so as I play with it - great context-sensitive tips in the status bar down the bottom.

[obtusity]

Yes, I've played with the (rather nice) Text tool, it was the text bubbles that intrigued me, as I dabble in static and animated cartooning.

Possibly my interpretation differs from that of the person who wrote that. I can use a modified ellipse and use it as a text parent, I was just wondering if I'd missed something for cartoony text bubbles (callout-style).

 

Thanks for listening!

[obtusity]

Update:

I was browsing the help file, trying to find out what is new in the 2.0 release, and I saw that some speech bubbles are included in the NCH clip art library:

http://help.nchsoftware.com/help/en/expressanimate/win/content_clipartlibrary.html

Nifty!