Creating any animation from scratch requires sufficient knowledge of the Scratch platform. So we have to first imagine the animation we have to make, including its background, the character, and the motion. The next step is to create the animation in Scratch, which can be proceeded by sharing the animation with others on the scratch platform.
An animation project consists of a sequence of images of the motion of objects to create a video. On Scratch, users can make short movies, music videos, comical shorts, and more through various techniques. Animation can involve programming sprites to talk, move, and interact.
In this blog, we will discuss the prerequisites that you should be aware of before creating animations in Scratch. The steps required to follow generally while creating any scratch animation, an example that will demonstrate creating animation in Scratch.
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You must know various elements of the Scratch platform before proceeding to make an animation. Let’s discuss some of the most important ones among them.
After you are well versed with the Scratch platform, you must imagine making the best Scratch animations. If you have an idea of the animation in your mind to create the same, follow the below-mentioned steps.
As we can see Polar Bear sprite has three costumes namely – polar bear-a, polar bear-b, and polar bear-c. In each of the costumes, the bear is taking different steps further which when together looked at will help you make an animated effect of the walking bear.
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Instead of waiting for one second, we will wait for 0.3 seconds. However, you can change the waiting time as per your convenience and the speed with which you want the bear to change its costume.
Instead of gliding in 1 second, we want the bear to walk slowly that’s why we will change it to 20 secs. The x and y position till which the polar bear will glide that is walk should be 160 and -38 respectively as we checked previously the position of the bear at the other tree corner.
After reading this blog, we learned about different elements of the scratch platform and learned about the steps that need to follow while creating an animation on Scratch.
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In this part we'll continue working on that project. We'll add some animations to our sprites and backdrops. You've already created a simple animation for the cat to make it seem to run: we'll add another one to the crab. We'll also animate the backdrop to create a zooming effect.
We're going to be working with the project created in the last part of the series, on events. We'll use the assets and scripts we've created so far and add more.
Alternatively you can just carry on working in the same project you already created. Here's how you do each of these (you'll only need to do one).
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Open Scratch and go to the project you want to duplicate. Make sure you've clicked the See Inside button so you can see the workings of the project.
Now click the Remix button. Scratch will save a duplicate of my project as a new project in your account. Rename it and you're good to go!
The first thing we'll do is create an animated effect for the stage using those backdrops we made earlier on in the series.
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Select the Stage and edit the script you've created for it that makes the timer variable change by -1 every second. You'll need to insert a
Block inside the loop, and then make as many copies of the blocks inside the loops as you have backgrounds that you want to switch. Normally you could use the
Block which would save you having to repeat very similar blocks inside your loop, but you can't do this here because of the circles backdrop.
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Now if you start the project, the background will appear to zoom in repeatedly. It's not the smoothest of zooms in my project (it might look better in yours!) but it gives you the idea. You could do this with more backdrops looking more like each other to create a much smoother zooming effect, and if you had a repetitive backdrop you could create an effect of zooming in forever.
In an earlier part of this series, you added an animation to the cat sprite, making it look as if it's walking around the stage. Now we're going to add an animation to the Crab sprite, changing its costume when it catches the cat so that its pincers seem to be moving.
This means that when the crab and the cat touch (i.e. the caught message is broadcast), the crab will switch costume and wait 0.2 seconds, three times. Try running the game and you can see that the crab looks as if its pincers are opening and closing when it catches the cat.
I Need Animation Ideas.
Animating your Scratch projects makes them more visually interesting and helps you create effects that will enhance your games and interactions. In this tutorial you learned how to add some simple animation to your stage and one of your sprites.
For a challenge, try drawing more costumes for the sprites and adding animations for those—maybe you could duplicate the cat, draw some extra features on it, and use those when the cat is telling the user what their score was?
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