Animation Programs: Scenarios and Storyboards

1. Animation Programs: Scenarios and Storyboards Alice Web Design Section 8-3

2. Step 1: Design • Decide on the problem to be solved • Design a solution • We will use a storyboard design technique, commonly used in the film industry

3. Storyboard Template • We will use this template:

4. Example • The scenario is: First Encounter After traveling through space, a robot-manned craft has just made a landing on a moon. The robot is on the moon and has set up a camera so earthbound scientists in Houston can view this historic event. The camera view shows the robot, the lunar Lander and some nearby rock formations. Suddenly an alien peeks out from behind a rock and says “Slithytoves?"”, surprising the robot. The robot looks around, spots the alien, and walks over to take a closer look. The alien is frightened and hides behind the rocks. • The problem is: How can we create this animation?

5. Create Initial World

6. StoryboardOption 1: Sketches

7. StoryboardOption 2: Screen Shots Initial scene The spiderRobot walks toward the alien

8. StoryboardOption 3: Text Form • A textual storyboard is like a "to-do" list. • The Learning to Program in Alice textbook puts a textual storyboard in a box: Do the following steps in order alien moves up alien says "Slithytoves?" robot's head turns around robot turns to look at alien Do together robot moves toward the alien robot legs walk alien moves down

9. Rest of Today • Complete the Chapter 1 Exercises from yesterday • Show me the results when you have all 4 exercises complete. • Read Chapter 2 Section 1 • Download Chapter 2 Exercises from the web site. • Pick any one of the 2-2 exercises and draw a storyboard for the animation • Some of the exercises in the book are more difficult than others. Extra credit is awarded if you complete one of those exercises. When you code this exercise, if you choose exercise 6 you will get extra credit.