Scratch Level 5: The Color Divide for Intermediate Animators

This animation class is designed for advanced Scratch students who already have a strong grasp of message coding and are passionate about animation. Students will study the design and animation techniques used in The Color Divide project and remix the project to create their own animation. Click here to see the original project which will be our point of reference: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/402041434/fullscreen

Class 1: Analyze the original project, identify the number of scenes, analyze the character and backgrounds used to tell the story, discover the term “naming conventions” and the techniques used for the message code blocks, and code section 1.
Class 2: Analyze the costumes for Leya and Fague and the “naming conventions” used for these costumes, discuss the costume designs and variations, and code section 2.
Class 3: Analyze the costumes for Joshua, boy, and kids and the “naming conventions” used for these costumes, and code section 3.
Class 4: Analyze the design and costumes for the non-people sprites and code section 4.
Class 5-7: Code sections 5-7.
Class 8: Discuss any variances that you want to make to the animation, get feedback on these changes, and implement the code.

Scratch is a free, open-source platform for block coding created by software engineers from MIT. Completing Levels 1-4 of our classes (or equivalent with another instructor) are a requirement for this course.