What's up? I just joined, and don't know what I'm doing! Do you guys know how to make realistic looking animations?

Zeolite423 wrote:

What's up? I just joined, and don't know what I'm doing! Do you guys know how to make realistic looking animations?

hi yeah. you can learn so much from my studio CHAT, should I invite you?

WELCOME TO SCRATCH!!! If you need any help with scripts I could help.

Yeah, that would really help. Thanks! Because what i'm going for is realistic simmulations. That type of thing. However, i have no clue at all how to do anything like that. Like, 3d mazes, walking through like, a 3d woods…

best-games-ever wrote:

If you need any help with scripts I could help.

Hi, me too.

Welcome to scratch Zeolite423, I hope you enjoy your yourself here!

Use vector when drawing if your doing basic animations. Lol, I have no clue!!

Cool! Ya, knew about the vector thingy, and I can use anything you guys have, as far as helping with animations goes. Thanks so much!

Hi! Welcome to Scratch, I hope you'll be able to begin animating soon! I'm a counselor for a scratch animation camp, you can join that if you want. Just go to my profile and click ‘Studios I Curate’, it should be there. And if you don't want to do that, just go to my profile and I can give you some helpful tips, and you can see some animations I've done. Hope I can be a help, and enjoy Scratch!

Cool. Thanks.

Zeolite423 wrote:

Yeah, that would really help. Thanks! Because what i'm going for is realistic simmulations. That type of thing. However, i have no clue at all how to do anything like that. Like, 3d mazes, walking through like, a 3d woods…

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Hello and Welcome to Scratch!

you like to roleplay? roleplaying is my favorite thing! maybe we could find a roleplaying studio together?

Strawberry_Mouse wrote:

you like to roleplay? roleplaying is my favorite thing! maybe we could find a roleplaying studio together?

Are you talking to me? Not in a rude way, I just don't know who you're taking to

v0-0v wrote:

Zeolite423 wrote:

Yeah, that would really help. Thanks! Because what i'm going for is realistic simmulations. That type of thing. However, i have no clue at all how to do anything like that. Like, 3d mazes, walking through like, a 3d woods…

T̴̡̡̡̨̡̮̟̲͈̮͗̓͂̉h̸̡̢̺̖̓͋̅̆̌͂͌͝͝a̷͍̍̐̔̈́̔̒̔̋̍t̷͇͚̊́̆'̷͉̳̗̂̽̿͒̽͛̌s̶̢͓̙̞͍͙͔̲̲̯̈͐͆̊͛̉̈́̽͒͠ͅ ̷̼̐̐̿í̶̧̙͈̗̈͋͑̄͒̈́m̷͙̙̒͂̿́p̶͉͝o̶̮̙̞̘͈͉̊̎̈͂̚̕͜͠͝͠s̷̭̐̌ş̸͇̹͇̬̼̟͓̱͇̀̋̀̇͝ī̴̪͕̮͉̻̟͒͐̑̄̿̓̕b̷̨̛̭͎̑̀͒͊͑͘͝l̵̡͓̣̘̈̓̐͂͆̓̾e̸̺͎̳̫͎̯̖̜̯̍̀

With good enough art, yes, it is possible, although you'll probably have to use a 3D download-compatible drawing editor (or almost any other advanced photo editor or drawing program) to make it as smooth and realistic as you can, as close as you get in Scratch is probably extremely detailed shading/higlighting and many gradients. Although, it isn't always that hard to find an art/3D editor that suits you..



Anyways, welcome to Scratch! If you need any help feel free to ask me. Now for my long speech on animation tips.


Be sure to shift-click/right-click (on Mac) or ctrl-click (on Windows) your previous costume to duplicate animation costumes, so you can edit it a bit at a time (especially when in vector). Also, when in vector, using an extremely small (such as 0.01 seconds) to no wait block is ideal. Unless you change your animation (animate it moving) a few pixels at a time, I'd say use no wait block. The delay may not seem like much, but it actually delays the costume switches quite a lot. However, when animating in bitmap, usually you use a 0.05 second wait block, probably due to the editor mechanics or even the tools available in each editor. I'll have to try that out sometime now that I'm talking about it. Anyways, back on topic. Using the circle and reshape tool available in the vector editor really helps for both drawing the characters and animating itself. Using the circle tool (the line option if you are doing an outline first (don't worry, there's a fill tool you can use to fill in the outlines. I'll explain those mechanics later) and the filled-in option if you're doing a solid colored character) and reshaping it with the reshape tool (creating more joints the more complicated your desired shape is and removing some to create the desired simple shape) will create the desired shape quite simply. When animating with the reshape tool, you probably won't have to worry about the colors if you simply used the fill tool, you're doing only the outline, or created the original shape pre-colored. Of course, take notice of the size and resize option. If multiple shapes are selected you can group them. When shapes are grouped, they will all move together when one of the shapes is selected, this makes detailed drawings easier (as, for example, eyes with a detailed gradient can be moved with the gradient still perfectly aligned using this tool). The select tool selects certain shapes to move at the same time, or group. The paint bucket tool will fill a tool. The color that filled the shape will be basically an entire part of the shape, on the same layer and moved with the shape.



Well, thanks for reading it (even if you didn't read it all) and feel free to correct me on anything.

Also, this may sound weird coming from a fellow New Scratcher, but that status is just because I recently moved accounts, my previous account was (I think) a bit more than a year old. I hope to regain my Scratcher status soon.

Anyways, Scratch On! I hope to see you make an amazing game or animation one day!