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Science 5: How to Animate a Sprite in Scratch 10 Views
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Description:
Wanna feel like Victor Frankenstein? Create a sprite, add some animation, and all of a sudden, it's... alive.
Transcript
- 00:00
lets make a sprite of our own you might wonder is that all there is to
- 00:17
making a sprite is that all there is well you can stop yawning there's way
- 00:22
more to be done we're going to make this bad boy move okay let's not get crazy [dancing legs on a computer screen]
- 00:26
your sprite isn't going to be on Dancing with the Stars any time soon so if you
- 00:31
look under the tab labeled scripts you'll see all sorts of motions that
Full Transcript
- 00:35
[a drawing of fire with a smiley face] your sprite can make want them to move a little bit to the right easy just click
- 00:39
on the blue block labeled move 10 steps drag it over into the gray space to the
- 00:44
right give it a click and bingo there goes your sprite a little to the right
- 00:48
[a slug on wooden floor] yeah yeah we know even a slug can move a little bit to the right but this stuff
- 00:52
gets even more fancy just wait the 10 in the blue block isn't locked in stone if
- 00:58
you click on it you can change it to whatever number you want higher numbers
- 01:02
means a sprite can move farther and if you enter a negative number it'll move
- 01:06
left instead of right let's see how boring old slug move to the left okay [a slug moving to the left leaving a trail]
- 01:12
fine whatever they can do that too big whoop
- 01:14
man you guys are tough audience but you ain't seen nothin yet the real fun comes
- 01:18
when we add control blocks if you click on control you'll see a whole bunch of
- 01:23
new orange blocks which you can mix and match with the blue motion blocks for [computer screen displaying the control blocks]
- 01:27
instance if we click on the repeat 10 block and drag it over the gray area and
- 01:31
our sprite will make that movement 10 times in a row or if we're feeling
- 01:36
really ambitious we can grab one of the blocks labeled forever and then our
- 01:40
sprite will really get movin way off the screen in fact but have no fear if we
- 01:46
want to see our precious sprite again we can get a if on edge bounce motion add
- 01:50
[a fire sprite bouncing across the screen] it to our forever block and our sprite will be bouncing across the screen for
- 01:54
as long as you like or until you click on that forever block again and believe
- 01:58
us no slug could do that what where'd you find that slug okay we [slug jumping down the back of a sofa]
- 02:03
give up
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