Coding Animated Narratives

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Here are some resources that will help you code your own animated narratives (CAN). Each section has a video and exercises to test your skills. They are best viewed in order as they build on the skills from the previous sections. If you have any suggestions on the resources, please contact karen.woo@mq.edu.au

CAN 1 - Animating with Scratch - Walking .webm

walking (Parallelism)

Test your skills:

CAN 2 - Calculating the parallel movement.webm

2. Timing Parallel Movements

Test your skills:

CAN 3 - Animating talking.webm

3. Talking

Test your skills:

CAN 4 - Conversations.webm

4. Synchronisation

Test your skills:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/590264693/

5. Complex Motion

Go to Scratch Tutorials, and choose Make It Fly.

Test your skills:

CAN 5 - Close-ups .webm

6. Camera angles

Test your skills:

Recreate the project, and create a close-up for the Egg

CAN 6 - Loops.webm

7. Loops

Test your skills:

CAN 7 - Make a Block.webm

8. Make a Block

What other ways can you make use of blocks?

9. Drawing Expressions

Test your skills:

Create a new Scratch project
Insert the "Characters 1" sprite
Use the Costume editor to create 3 (or more) facial expressions. Make sure you try out "Ungroup", "Reshape", "Rotate" and other tools.

See sample Scratch project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/599875570/

Coding Animated Narratives

walking (Parallelism)

2. Timing Parallel Movements

3. Talking

4. Synchronisation

5. Complex Motion

6. Camera angles

7. Loops

8. Make a Block

9. Drawing Expressions

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