ScratchJR Animation Development Guide

Once students have the basic knowledge of building animation scenes on ScratchJR, it is easy to develop that scene as they wish, adding more content and more characters. In addition, students can create dialogue between characters in the ScratchJR scene. Below are instructions for developing animation scenes in ScratchJR.

How to develop ScratchJR animations

Step 1:

First, you reopen the previously created scene. Next, you need to add a new character to that scene .

Step 2:

To adjust the newly added second character to rotate left or right , click on the move command group and select the rotate left or rotate right command as shown below to perform for the character.

Step 3:

Back to the cat program . Here you need to add the Wait statement , the first statement in the Orange Control group as shown below.

The number below this command is the wait time , measured in tenths of a second. If we want to wait for 1 second, we have to enter 10, for 2 seconds, we have to enter 20.

You drag this command down to the bottom of the program as below, then edit the waiting time you want on the keyboard in the interface.

Step 4:

Also in this program, you drag the second character close to the cat character at a moderate distance so that when you turn back, you will have time to wait. Then click on the program of character number 2 to write.

Step 5:

You click on the control command group and then add the commands in turn as below to build the dialogue with the cat character. We add the dialogue command for character 2 and also add the wait command with the appropriate time.

Step 6:

You will build a command with each sentence adding a wait command so that the other character can speak. When building a command and using the Wait command, you need to calculate the appropriate time for the 2 characters in the dialogue.

You can refer to the build command group for cat characters as below.

Here is the command for character 2 in the show for reference.