Scratch
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60 mins
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The Big Finale: Create Your Own Animated Story!

Unleash your creativity in this final lesson by creating your own animated story. You'll choose a story to animate, review the skills you've learned, and apply them to animate characters, add dialogue, control scenes, and create smooth transitions. Test, refine, and enjoy the process of bringing your story to life!
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    1 - Introduction

    In this final lesson, you’re going to create your own animated story using all the skills you’ve learned so far. This is your chance to let your creativity shine! We’ll start by reviewing everything we’ve covered, so you can think about how to use these skills in your story. Then, you’ll get to choose a story to animate, whether it’s a classic fairy tale or something entirely new!

    2 - Choose Your Story

    Now it’s time to decide what story you want to animate. Here are some suggestions:

    1. Classic Fairy Tale:

      • Cinderella: Animate the story of Cinderella going to the ball, losing her shoe, and being found by the prince.
      • Jack and the Beanstalk: Animate Jack’s adventure up the beanstalk, meeting the giant, and escaping with the treasure.
      • Little Red Riding Hood: Animate Red’s journey through the forest, meeting the wolf, and the final rescue by the woodsman.
    2. Original Story:

      • Create your own story where a hero goes on an adventure, faces challenges, and overcomes them with the help of friends.
      • Imagine a day in the life of a magical creature, exploring different parts of their enchanted world.
    3. Mix and Match:

      • Combine elements from different fairy tales to create a new story. Maybe Cinderella meets Jack on his way down the beanstalk, or Little Red Riding Hood teams up with the Three Little Pigs to outsmart the wolf.

    3 - Review the Skills

    4 - Animating Characters with Costumes

  • Reminder: You learned how to make characters move and change costumes to create animations, like making the Cat walk across the screen or a character dance on stage.
  • Suggestion: Use this skill to animate your characters’ movements as they explore different parts of your story. For example, you could animate a character running away from a giant or dancing at a royal ball.

  • 5 - Adding Dialogue and Timing

  • Reminder: You learned how to make characters talk and respond to each other using dialogue blocks and wait times, like when Kiran and Ripley had a conversation in space.
  • Suggestion: Use this skill to create conversations between your characters. You could have the hero talk to a wise old wizard or the villain explain their plan to the audience.

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