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Making Sprites Move

To make sprites move, you use motion blocks
available in Sprite blocks such as:

Move Sprite: Move a sprite in directions like
forward, backward, north, south, east or west,
with pixel values controlling speed and distance.

Turn right/left by X degrees: Rotate the sprite
in the specified direction by the given number

of degrees.

CREATING AN ANIMATED CHARACTER

To create an animated character, follow the given steps:

Step 1 Open Sprite Lab on Code.org.

Step 2 Drag the set background to block from the World blocks category and
attach it below the when run block.

Step 3 Drag the set size to block from the Sprites block category and place it
under the set background to block.

Step 4 Set the sprite size to 20.

Step 5 Drag the make new sprite at block and place it under the set size to
block.

Step 6 Drag the sprite begins and growing block from the Behaviours block
category and place it under the make new sprite at block.

Step 7 Click on the Run button to run the script.

Script Output

You will observe that the size of the sprite gets increased.

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