Alice Programming Step 1:Design Copyright 2011 Wanda Dann, Don Slater, Steve Cooper

Copyright 2010 Wanda Dann, Don Slater, Steve Cooper  In this lesson, you will learn how to create a design.

 A design for an Alice Animation project has two basic elements  Storyboard development  Scene setup  This lesson is about storyboards.

Design  Costumers create sketches  Car designers create drawings  Animators create storyboards

 A storyboard is a sequence of actions that  Tells a story  Simulates a process  Performs a task  Plays a game Copyright 2010 Wanda Dann, Don Slater, Steve Cooper

 See the Pixar website 12/17/09 How we do it.

 An example of a word problem:  Bruce (a shark) needs some "fish-rehab" – to help him kick the habit of eating fish.  Create an animation for the following script:  Three fish are swimming together. Bruce suddenly appears and the fish stop to look at the shark.  Bruce wants to be friendly so he offers to dance with the fish. Bruce illustrates the dance step and the fish imitate the step repeatedly until they swim out of sight.  Bruce says, "It's nice to have friends."

 To create a storyboard, begin by  Identifying the objects (characters/props)  Identifying the actions performed by the objects as the story unfolds Copyright 2010 Wanda Dann, Don Slater, Steve Cooper

Identify the objects Nouns in blue Three fish are swimming together. Bruce suddenly appears and the fish stop to look at the shark. Bruce wants to be friendly so he offers to dance with the fish. Bruce illustrates the dance step and the fish imitate the step repeatedly until they swim out of sight. Bruce says, "It's nice to have friends."

Identify the important actions Verbs in red  Three fish are swimming together. Bruce suddenly appears and the fish stop to look at the shark. Bruce wants to be friendly so he offers to dance with the fish. Bruce illustrates the dance step and the fish imitate the step repeatedly until they swim out of sight. Bruce says, "It's nice to have friends."

 Each action is sketched in a frame.  Each frame contains a description of the action and any sound or text. Three fish swim Sound: none Text: none

 Accompanying this lesson is a storyboard template tool that you may find useful. Copyright 2010 Wanda Dann, Don Slater, Steve Cooper

A list of actions (algorithm) Do in order Three fish swim together. Bruce suddenly appears Bruce says “I came to dance!” The fish turn to face camera at the camera Bruce and the fish repeatedly perform the dance step together until the fish swim out of sight. Bruce says it's nice to have friends.  Create a list the actions from each frame.  This is a “to-do list” that will be used to create the animation program.  A sequence of actions to perform a task is an algorithm