Creating Tutorials

In this article, you will find guidance around creating tutorials for Gravity Sketch.  To learn more about recording video in VR, please visit the In-app filming guidance article. 

Purpose of tutorials

There are two main types of tutorial:

• Workflow Tutorial illustrating a section or entire workflow (a series of features)
• Feature Tutorial illustrating how to use one individual feature

Tutorials should both inform users of the existence of a workflow or feature as well as educate them on how to do it.

Assets

Continuity:

• For individual tutorials or a series of related tutorials (e.g. a product release) agree one asset to use throughout the series
• Decide on the colorway of this asset across the series
• Ensure assets used are publicly available in the community asset library

Script

Evergreen use:

• In the voiceover, do not reference the point in time or release the feature is related to.

Avoid saying anything timely e.g…

• ‘this July’
• ‘version 6.3’
• ‘2024’
• ‘New feature’
• ‘Just released’

This context can be set in the copy surrounding the video, or an additional promo. The tutorial should be approached as if it is a standard feature that can be used indefinitely.

Terminology:

• Adhere to the feature and controller terms in the glossary

Script structure:

• Introduce yourself
• Tell the viewer which feature you are going to show them
• Explain why it is important in the wider context of a workflow (see positioning alignment below)
• Take them step by step through the buttons and actions to use the feature(s)
• Briefly pause between features to enable a good view of how the asset / room has been modified
• Mention where users can find the asset you have used
• Reiterate what was shown and the value

Duration

Workflow tutorial segments: 4 minutes - 10 minutes

Individual feature tutorial: 90 seconds - 4 minutes