Animation Programs: Scenarios and Storyboards

1. Animation Programs: Scenarios and Storyboards Alice

2. Step 1: Design • Decide on the problem to be solved • Often the problem to be solved is given to you by your instructor, team leader, etc. • Other times, you get to make it up! • We will practice both • Design a solution • We will use a storyboard design

3. Example • The scenario is: Several snow-people are outdoors, on a snow-covered landscape. A snowman is trying to meet a snowwoman who is talking with a group of her friends (other snowwomen.) He says "Ahem" and blinks his eyes, trying to get her attention. • The problem is: How can we create this animation?

4. Create Initial World

5. None StoryboardOption 1: Sketches

6. StoryboardOption 2: Screen Shots Initial scene Snowman tries to catch snowwoman’s attention Snowwoman looks around

7. Storyboard Option 3: Text • Animation Artists sketch their storyboards • You may not have such expertise, so here is a textual form that can be used: This is like a "to-do" list. The Learning to Program in Alice textbook puts a textual storyboard in a box. Do the following actions in order snowman turns to face snowwoman snowman “blinks eyes” and calls out to the snowwoman. snowwoman turns around.

8. Assignment • Read Chapter 2 section 1

9. Lab • Chapter 2 Lab Lec1