Creative Inventions and Robotics

Animated Gif’s Creative Inventions and Robotics www.build-it-yourself.com

Tools • Gimp: Freeware version of Photoshop. • http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ • Free Online Tool for editing gif’s (crop and size). • http://www.picresize.com/ • Free Online Tool for making animated gifs. • http://www.myspacegens.com/handler.php?gen=animatedimage&p=view&id=2818834919 www.build-it-yourself.com

Size your rockets and characters so they can maneuver around your scenes. • Rotate your rockets so they point to the right. This will make it easier to point them in the right direction in Scratch. • Position them in the center with black rectangles if possible. When you cut out your rockets and characters in Scratch (i.e. create transparent backgrounds) your rockets and characters will have a black outline as opposed to a white outline. Also your characters will register (not jump around) when you animate them. www.build-it-yourself.com

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Size your characters so they can maneuver around your scenes. • Position them in the center with black rectangles if possible. When you cut out your characters in Scratch (i.e. create transparent backgrounds) your characters will have a black outline as opposed to a white outline. Also your characters will register (not jump around) when you animate them. www.build-it-yourself.com

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You need a white background for this bird because a black background would enable you to see the black glasses. www.build-it-yourself.com

Size characters so they can maneuver around your scenes. • You need a white background for this bird because a black background would enable you to see the black glasses. www.build-it-yourself.com

Make all your animated character frames and then put them in a rectangle to ensure registration. www.build-it-yourself.com

Creative Inventions and Robotics