Playing with Sounds

Hmm… something is missing from our animations. Can you guess what?

Sound! With sound, animations become more attractive. Let’s see how you can add sound to your animations.

What is Sound?

A sound is something that you hear when someone speaks, sings, or plays a musical instruments. It can be played, available by importing, built-in sound library, or recording.

In PictoBlox, you can play different sounds by using blocks from the Sound palette which can control a sound’s volume, tempo, and more.

Let’s see how to use them in an animation!

Activity: Adding Sounds

In this activity, we’ll make an animation of a barking dog in which whenever we press the spacebar, the dog will bark and go to a random location on the stage.

Choosing the Backdrop

Follow the steps below to add a backdrop.

Click the Choose a Backdrop button.
Select the Jungle backdrop from the library.

And that’s it! The stage has now transformed from a blank space to a colorful jungle!

Choosing the Sprite

Follow the steps below to add a sprite.

Using choose a sprite button, Choose the Dog1.
Right-click on the Tobi icon in the sprite palette and delete it.

Now, let’s animate the dog.

Setting the Starting Position

Using the following blocks, we will set the starting position of Dog.

Adding Costumes

As we will be working on two costumes of the dog, we first need to add the costume.

Click on Costume palette.
You will see two costumes of dogs that are already added.

Switching Costumes and Playing Sounds

Next, we create another script. We will use switch costume block from looks palette and play sound block from the sound palette.

Gliding to a Random Position

To make our Dog sprite glide randomly, We will use glide block from the motion palette.
To switch back to initial costume, use switch costume block from looks palette.