Scratch Camp Part 2: Coding and Animation - Animating Motion

This is a 3-Day Series.  Students will meet 3 times to complete Part 2.
Please note: Classes will meet 3 times within the same week for Summer Break. 
Basic computer skills like typing, opening and closing programs, saving and exporting files, and mouse maneuvering are prerequisites. For students who have no coding and animation experience, it is required that they have completed Series Part 1 before they join this class. Please see link below:
Part 1: Fundamentals for Beginners
https://outschool.com/classes/scratch-camp-part-1-coding-and-animation-fundamentals-for-beginners-0ak9VANq?refuid=RzeseCIM 
Students who have completed this class are recommended to join Series Part 3 where they will integrate coding and animation with interactive game design. Please see link below:
Part 3: Building Dynamic Background
https://outschool.com/classes/scratch-camp-part-3-coding-and-animation-building-dynamic-background-sC68Uqut?refuid=RzeseCIM 

In Part 2, students will create one dynamic animation of Sonic and his friends in front of a moving background to learn some of the core principles of 2D animation and how to utilize each using Scratch’s sprite generation and coding tools. Through learning about the principles of animation and applying them with their favorite characters, students will be excited to see what they can accomplish and share their projects by the end of each session. Emphasis will be put on fluid and dynamic movements with background integration.

Day 1 - Pose To Pose: Spin Dash and Uphill Roll With Sonic
Focusing on the basic principle of pose-to-pose, students will draw and animate Sonic curling into a spin dash and then rolling up a hill in 3 key frames and then emphasize the movement by having poses in between. Students will then code the motion in a loop and move Sonic across the screen at a speed matching his animation. A static background with a simple ramp will be added behind Sonic of which students will be using to integrate their animations with an environment in the next class.

Day 2 - Arc: Flying Through the Sky With Tails
Using the principle of arcs as a building concept, students will continue from Sonic’s spin dash and extend the animation coming off the ramp and flying over a hovering Tails. Sonic in his spin dash ball form will come from the ramp in a U-shape arc over Tails with time in the air through several spaced out frames.  Through this, students will understand how to implement the effect of arching motions. The static background from before will be moved up and down behind Sonic and Tails to add a greater sense of movement to the animation. 

Day 3 - Timing: Glide With Knuckles
By applying the principle of timing, students will further animate Sonic’s spin dash to include Knuckles flying through it, interrupting his glide and knocking him out in midair. Students will engage this principle by having Sonic and Knuckles move quickly towards impact, stop briefly upon collision, and then quickly fall down. Appropriate timing for this last part of the animation will assure that it is comedic and a great payoff for the amount of action from start to finish. The background will finally track Sonic as he falls down from his arc in the previous exercise, as he collides with Knuckles, and then when he falls to the ground as a result.

Students can use what they learned throughout the course in games and animation, starting with Scratch and then later in complex programs. Students will discover how to apply previous Scratch knowledge and basic understanding of animation to longer and more complex projects.

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