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
CAN 2 - Calculating the parallel movement.webm
CAN 3 - Animating talking.webm
CAN 4 - Conversations.webm

4. Synchronisation

CAN 5 - Close-ups .webm

6. Camera angles

Test your skills:

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

CAN 6 - Loops.webm
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:

  1. Create a new Scratch project

  2. Insert the "Characters 1" sprite

  3. 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/

Suggested Videos: