Animation Programs: Scenarios and Storyboards Alice

Step 1: Design Decide on the problem to be solved Design a solution 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

Example The scenario is: The problem 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?

Create Initial World Active Learning: Students create initial world. Illustrate use of quad view to position objects relative to one another.

Storyboard Option 1: Sketches None

Storyboard Option 2: Screen Shots Initial scene Snowman tries to catch snowwoman’s attention Snowwoman looks around

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.

Assignment Read Chapter 2 section 1

Lab Chapter 2 Lab Lec1