A Dance Animation
🎯 A character dances to a beat, changing costume in time with a drum.
💡 The idea behind it
Animation is nothing more than changing the picture quickly. Timing is what makes it look alive.
🧱 Blocks you will need
forevernext costumewait 0.2 secondsplay drum 1 for 0.25 beatschange colour effect by 25
🔨 Build it
- Choose a sprite with several costumes — the Cassy or Champ sprites have dance poses.
- Build: when flag clicked → forever → next costume → wait 0.2 seconds.
- Run it. Then change 0.2 to 0.05 and to 1, and notice how completely the feel changes.
- Add a drum inside the same loop so the beat and the movement match.
- Add 'change colour effect by 25' for a disco floor.
🚀 Make it harder
- Add a second dancer that moves on the opposite beat.
- Change the backdrop every eight beats using a counter.
🐞 Bugs you will hit
- It flickers too fast to see: your wait is too short, or missing altogether.
- Only one costume shows: that sprite has only one costume — pick a different sprite.
⬇ Need Scratch itself?
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