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October 26, 2021
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Animated card

  • October 26, 2021
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What software is the easiest to create an animated card that can be send out via email?

for example 

 

Christmas tree with presents

click on present

present opens 

out pops a message

 

I want to send it out via mass email and post in social media [if possible]

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    sbatscheAuthor
    Participant
    October 27, 2021

    Thank you, at least it gives me a better insight in what's involved.

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 27, 2021

    Owing to the limitations of email and social media platforms in general, the best you can do is attach an animated GIF or video.  To make it interactive however, the platform that it is viewed on would need to support scripting actions.  That's not possible unless you use a platform specific widget of some kind.

     

    The alternative is to create an interactive web page with HTML, CSS and JavaScript code and then send users to your website's URL.

     

    Adobe Spark is a good tool for creating Spark Pages (online newsletters), Spark Posts with animated Gif (for social media) or Spark Videos.  See below.

    https://spark.adobe.com/sp/

     

    Hope that helps.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Peru Bob
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 27, 2021
    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 27, 2021

    i don't know what would be easiest because that depends on your knowledge base and, even if you know nothing about any adobe apps or issues related to your goal, that would be hard to answer.

     

    but, i think, the easiest animation to do what you want would be an animated gif.  you can check the adobe apps to see which can create animated gifs, but my guess is that adobe animate would be the easiest if you're starting with nothing (eg, no video to convert).

    sbatscheAuthor
    Participant
    October 27, 2021

    Thank you for the input, it does help!

    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 28, 2021

    you're welcome.

     

    and @Nancy OShea is correct.  if you want interactivity (a response to a click), an animated gif/video isn't going to work and it will be more complex to embed in an email than an animated gif/video.

     

    i would suggest either no interactivity or a link in an email to an html page that has interactivity.