Creating Digital Animations: Animate Stories with Scratch!

Derek Breen

ISBN 10: 1119233526 / ISBN 13: 9781119233527

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2016

About this Item

The easy way to start animating today! Creating Digital Animations is your ticket to learning animation! Learn how to animate your very own characters using Scratch the free multimedia tool that lets you create interactive stories, games, and animations. Series: Dummies Junior. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: UM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 228 x 8. Weight in Grams: 210. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Creating Digital Animations: Animate Stories with Scratch!
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119233526
• ISBN 13: 9781119233527
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The easy way to start animating today!

Creating Digital Animations is your ticket to learning animation! Learn how to animate your very own characters using Scratch―the free multimedia tool that lets you create interactive stories, games, and animations. Designed specifically for kids aged seven and up, this easy-to-follow, full-color guide introduces you to important game design concepts through three simple projects. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the four major phases of animation design, showing you how to turn your idea into a real animation with sound effects and more! You'll work just like the pros as you sketch out your main idea, add your own details, and develop a complete, workable character from scratch.

If you're curious about coding, animation is the perfect place to start exploring. The Scratch platform doesn't require an actual programming language, but it gets you used to thinking like a programmer while you develop your very own animation. Short on rules but big on fun, this book is your friendly animation coach to get you started on the right foot.

• Use stick figures to design your characters' 'bones'
• Flesh out your design and animate movements
• Create scenes and background locations
• Add sound to take your animation to the next level

Animation is fun! Building your own characters is exciting! And putting the finishing touches on your animation project shows you just how much you can learn while you play. Coding is a valuable skill that will serve you throughout school and beyond, and this book teaches you the basics in a way that leaves you hungry for more. Where will you take your new animation skills next? Creating Digital Animations takes you on the first steps of your journey to wherever you want to go!

About the Author

Derek Breen is a former designer for the Education Arcade at MIT and teaching fellow in the Digital Media Arts and Instructional Design program at Harvard Extension School. He is the author of Scratch For Kids For Dummies.