Creating Digital Animations: Animate Stories with Scratch! (Dummies Junior)
Product ID: 59244354
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! Review: Five Stars - I love how easy it is for my 'just 9' year old! Great book:) Review: Great start - Great for my student who was so interested In learning about how to credit animation
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| Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 75 Reviews |
J**N
Five Stars
I love how easy it is for my 'just 9' year old! Great book:)
L**M
Great start
Great for my student who was so interested In learning about how to credit animation
T**L
It's Worth It!
My daughter loves it and uses it often. It is a helpful book.
A**D
Book Purchase
I'm sure its a good book but kid did not agree -
S**V
Moving Pictures
This book was extremely clear and well written, easy to read and follow well worth it's reasonable modest fee.
A**Z
The ten year old approves
Having spent most of one Sunday working through this book, my ten year old, somewhat of a scratch fan, pronounced this book a five star item. Her reasoning was that it walked her through something new on Scratch in a way she could understand. She was able to use the instructions to create her own character and add movement and sound. She liked the fact that there were loads of good tips, like using audacity to record sound and import into scratch, and to storyboard before you start. Excellent book for the audience it is aimed at - ks2 and 3 children with some prior knowledge but wanting to try something new.
J**H
Clear, concise and worthwhile
This was clear and well presented and would be accessible I would say to and intelligent and motivated child in junior school upwards. The book takes you step by step through how to create a simple animation using scratch (which is a free web tool) I think this idea is great to give focus and direction to children when they are starting out as simply saying "go explore it" can lead to a lot of aimlessness - if children (or adults like me who didn't have a clue!) follow the book, you get ideas for other projects as you go along, and the structure of the book builds up your skills step by step. Really worthwhile.
S**S
If you're itchin to scratch, worth considerin
Our son started using Scratch towards the end of Year 3, so when we saw this book we thought it might be useful both for him to improve his skills and for us to gain the first idea of what they were teaching in school IT these days. His school seem to have moved on to other curriculum items now, but son did demonstrate his use of Scratch to create simple animations before moving on to other topics. It's a useful book for us as parents, but hasn't inspired interest in programming for either generation as yet.
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