The Egypt Story

The movie above was created with Alice (and recorded with CamStudio by MediaSoft).
It is quite a large movie (2.5 MegaBytes), so be patient while it downloads.

This is just the prototype - a short, first try.  It needs to be longer.  Here are some ideas
for an expanded story-line.

- Assignment -

Make an animated story about some historic event(s).  These MUST be events that happened
before 1915 - so before World-War I.  If you don't know anything about history, you may
choose an article from Wikipedia and take facts from there.

Your animation should be similar to the Egypt example - e.g. some things are moving (at least a bit),
words appear to tell the "facts", it progresses automatically, etc.  You may take "creative liberty" with the story - your presentation does not need to be exactly factual, but should be based on a real story.

We will spend this week and next week on this assignment - that gives you 6 class periods.
So you can't make the history of the western world, but you should be able to manage 10 or more
 commands per day, so 50-100 actions (commands) altogether.

Your "story" should include all the following:

DON'T waste time on things like the following:

A few hints that might make things easier:

Here are the commands from the Egypt prototype - perhaps the ideas are useful:

Methods

  world.my first method ( )
    No variables
       eskimoGirl say Egypt was an amazing ancient civilization. duration = 2 seconds
  anubis move up 0 meters duration = 2 seconds
  eskimoGirl say Unfortunately, the culture disappeared. duration = 2 seconds
  anubis move up 0 meters duration = 2 seconds
  anubis say When did it disappear? duration = 2 seconds
  anubis move up 0 meters duration = 2 seconds
  eskimoGirl say About 350 BC duration = 2 seconds
  anubis move up 0 meters duration = 2 seconds
  anubis.upperBody.head think I better disappear duration = 2 seconds (0.8, 1, 0.8)
  anubis move up 0 meters duration = 1 second
  anubis set skin texture to ground.DirtTexture duration = 2 seconds style = gently
  Do together
       anubis turn left 8 revolutions duration = 2 seconds
  anubis set opacity to 0 (0%)
  eskimoGirl say Not everything disappeared.
  Do together
       eskimoGirl turn right 0.1 revolutions
  mummy move up 0 meters duration = 2 seconds
  eskimoGirl say The pyramids are still there.
  eskimoGirl move up 0 meters duration = 1 second
  eskimoGirl say ... and MUMMIES!
  mummy set opacity to 0.6 (60%)
  mummy turn right 0.02 revolutions
  mummy move forward 45 meters duration = 5 seconds
  mummy say OOOOoooooo.....!!! duration = 2 seconds
  eskimoGirl say Shut up and go away ... you aren't real! duration = 3 seconds
  sheriff move forward 4 meters duration = 4 seconds
  sheriff say Don't worry, little lady. duration = 2 seconds
  sheriff move up 0 meters duration = 1 second
  sheriff say I'll take care of this varmint! duration = 2 seconds
  sheriff turn right 0.05 revolutions
  Do together
       sheriff.rightLeg turn forward 0.1 revolutions
  sheriff.leftLeg turn backward 0.1 revolutions
  sheriff move forward 0.5 meters
  Do together
       sheriff.rightLeg turn backward 0.25 revolutions
  sheriff.leftLeg turn forward 0.1 revolutions
  Do together
       sheriff.rightLeg turn backward 0.25 revolutions
  mummy move up 5 meters
  mummy move backward 25 meters
  Do together
       mummy move down 5 meters
  mummy move backward 25 meters
  sheriff.rightLeg turn forward 0.4 revolutions
  sheriff turn right 0.25 revolutions
  sheriff say I bet there is treasure in there. duration = 2 seconds
  sheriff move up 0 meters duration = 2 seconds