Scratching the Surface of Animations

This past week we have worked some with finalizing our websites, getting the animations we created to actually work on the pages, and started working on with Scratch. This is a program for creating more detailed and complicated animations, using characters (or "sprites") that can move, spin, talk, grow, and even make sounds.  We dabbled around with it for a few days in class to get the hang of it, then went to work making several of our own projects. One of them limited the possible actions to 8 simple commands, which greatly restricted the options and forced creativity.

HTMLing

This past week in class we learned about HTML coding and how to make our own (rather simple) websites. It was kinda cool to see how messing around with the encoding text brought about real changes right there on the web page, even though it is very complex the more stuff you want to add. On Thursday we each designed several images in Paint and tried to program the webpages to play them in sequence to create an animation effect similar to that of Stop-Motion videos. Different words programmed into the right spaces determine the background color, text style, the alignment of photos or text, and every other little detail you can think of.