This is a 3-Day Series.  Students will meet 3 times.
In addition to basic computer skills like typing, opening and closing programs, saving and exporting files, and mouse maneuvering, this class requires some Scratch experience. For students who have no coding and animation background, we recommend joining Series Part 1 before proceeding to this class. Please see the link below:
Coding & Animation Part 1: Fundamentals for Beginners
https://outschool.com/classes/3-day-coding-and-animation-art-tech-series-part-1-fundamentals-for-beginners-0ak9VANq#usRzeseCIM

In this Thanksgiving Special Edition class, students will learn how to create narrative stories with Minecraft characters in Scratch. By utilizing time, motion and dialogue blocks, students will be able to storyboard a Thanksgiving feast celebrated in a Minecraft style! 

Day 1 - Sneaky Enderman's Harvest
Students will animate an Enderman bending down and picking up a bundle of crops, getting away before the player notices. The focus is on utilizing time blocks to space out motions realistically.
 
Day 2 - Cooking With Creeper
Students will animate a creeper in motion sneaking up on a crafter making some roasts in the furnace. Students will utilize dialogue bubbles to have their characters speak and interact. They will also add motion blocks to move one sprite across the screen in sequence with the player sprite’s dialogue.

Day 3 - Yaay! for the Grand Feast
Students will draw and animate one moving character sprite to export and copy into multiple players to create a crowd shot of all the characters sitting at the table. The "Chef" character will carry food to the table while everybody cheers "Yaay!". Students will be utilizing their experience with the time blocks and dialogue blocks to move all characters and time word bubbles appropriately to complete the Thanksgiving celebration story.

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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Mandatory Video Check-In
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Technical Difficulties
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