Artwork in PowerPoint
Creative Inventions and Robotics
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Ordinary
Anyone can draw this.
Way Cool
Make your friends say, “Wow!”
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You will learn to use PowerPoint to create imaginative graphics
for your animated stories and games.
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Start free form designs with ovals or ellipses.
This can help you get symmetric designs that are pleasing to the eye.
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Set up your Drawing menu.
If you don’t see the drawing command line,
go to View / Toolbars / Drawing
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Start free form designs with an ellipse.
This will help you get symmetric designs that are pleasing to the eye.
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Select the curved line tool from AutoShapes / Lines
Click to start a curve.
Click to define points around the curved shape.
Use the ellipse as a guide.
You must end with a double click
exactly where you started to
close and fill in the shape.
Don’t worry if the shape
is not quite symmetric.
Select
AutoShapes / Lines / Curve
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To edit the curved lines, right click on the shape. Select ‘Edit Points’
Adjust points until the shape is just the way you want it.
Right click on the shape.
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Add color gradations.
- Select object.
- Select Paint Bucket options / Fill Effects / 2 colors)
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Draw wings.
You will need send the wings to the back.
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Grouping Objects
This allows you to move and scale a collection of objects as though they are one object.
Select the objects to group by dragging your mouse around all the objects.
You will see a dotted line rectangle. All the objects selected will be surrounded with
little squares.
Select Draw / Group.
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Getting your rocket ready for Scratch.
Your whole rocket should be one group.
Rotate the group so your rocket is pointing to the right.
Size your rocket so it is small enough to let other things happen on the screen.
Position your rocket so it is in the center.
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Format the background to be black.
Insert a duplicate slide. Ungroup and delete the fire so you can animate your rocket to
show the rocket firing when you move it. You should now have two rocket images.
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Scratch process to import rocket into Scratch
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Save PPT rocket slide to rocket.jpg on the desktop
Open Scratch
Click on Sprite with cat.
Select costumes
Import Desktop rocket.jpg
Edit this costume.
Select transparent color (bottom right gray/wt squares)
Select paint bucket and apply transparent color to black or
white background.
9) Rotate rocket so it points to the right.
10) Delete cat costumes.
Download Scratch for free.
http://scratch.mit.edu/
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Save your PowerPoint rocket as a JPEG image.
You need to:
1) Save to desktop.
2) Name file so you can recognize it.
3) Save as type, JPEG.
4) Click on ‘Save’ and select ‘No’ to save only the current slide.
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Import your JPEG from the desktop to Scratch.
Launch Scratch. Select the Cat sprite. Select Costumes. Select Import.
Import your rocket graphics and delete the cats.
Edit the rocket graphics.
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Create transparent backgrounds.
Select the ‘gray square’ color box. Select the paint bucket.
Click on the black background.
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Save your PowerPoint rocket as a JPEG image.
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Scratch process to control rocket with arrow keys.
Select ‘Sprites’ and drag and drop the commands onto the program area.
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Create a space scene and import it as a background in the stage.
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