Scratch

Like Jens said you use sprites in scratch. To get a good animation like movement you need costumes for the sprite. During the project you have to make a script were it switches to the other costumes and when you play it say it is a Person walking you should see there feet be in different places just as if they are walking. and if you want them to move while walking you have to add in a motion block! Hopefully that helps also if you want to see some scripts with motion watch some projects and maybe one has a person walking and you see there feet actually going along because then  you can download it and observe the script and you can use it in your project!  Hopefully this helped a little maybe a lot!

That not an entirely correct answer.

It is extrememly easy to animate a sprite - in terms of moving the sprite around.  If that's what you need, you are in luck.  And you can do some fairly nifty animations with that sort of method - its fundementally the same as Terry Gilliam used on Monty Python, after all.

However, if you are looking to animate using the traditional "draw a picture, draw anothe picture with a tiny change, draw another picture with a tiny change etc etc" method the minimalist painting abilities will make your life harder.

Nothing to stop you from drawing the pics in another program then using costume changes to animate them in scratch, of course.  Combine this with moving the sprite around the screen and you are set.

For a *very* simple example, see my marching cybermen.

For a much more complex example, check out the stargate example that comes with scratch 

Last edited by Mayhem (2008-02-07 10:00:26)