Hi, everyone.It's Zoe from the Scratch team, also known as Zinnia.

Today I wanted to show you howto

make a character designer in Scratch.Basically, it's a kind of project where the playercan customize their
own character of whatever kind.If you've ever seen a game that's likemake your own cup cake or design
yourown fox, this is that type of game.And by the end of this video, you'll beable to make your own
game like this. Let's get started.So first, let's pick what you wantthe theme of your project to be.Do you
want to make a design your own cat gameor design your own dragon or design your own outfit?It can be
anything you want.As an example, I'm going to makea create your own dog game.But this video will
work no matter what theme you pick.So first we're going to draw oneversion of the character in our
game.If you haven't drawn much in Scratch oryou don't really enjoy drawing, don't worry.I'm going to
show you a drawingstyle that's really easy to do andactually doesn't require any drawing experience.To
draw a character, I'll hover over,choose a sprite, and click Paint.Here's the drawing style I find really easy
to use.I basically make the character out of simple circles.I'm making a dog.So I will click on the circle
tool and dragout an ovalish circle thing to be the head.Then I'll click on this purple squareto change the
color to black.And now I'm going to draw small circles for the eyes.One thing I like to do is once
I'vedrawn the first eye, I will click on itand click Copy, and then click Paste.And now I have a second eye,
which I could just putover here so I could have a purple dog in my game.But I think I want the dog's fur
to be brown.To change the color of this circle, I just haveto click on it to select it and then clickthe
square again to make a brown color, I'll switchthe color up here to something in the orange sectionof
the rainbow, and then I can change the brightnessto get a darker shade of brown.Okay, so now I want to
givethe dog sort of floppy ears.How do you make shapes that aren't circles?What you can do is make a
circle with thecircle tool and then click on the point editing tool,and you can click and drag on these
points tomold the shape into the shape you want it.So to make floppy ears, I'll drag this pointover here,
and maybe this goes over here.And I can also click on a point and movethese arrows to control the
shape around that point.So that's how I draw shapes that aren't circles.I start with a circle, and then
I'lljust move the points a little bit.And now that I've drawn one ear, I can click on itand just like with the
eyes, I can click copy and paste.And then now I have a second ear and I canalso click Flip horizontal so
that it's pointing this direction.Now I'll set the color to pink and drawa circle to give my dog a nose.And
I'll use the eyedropper tool to get the same color Iused for the head and draw a circle for the body.And
I'll drag these points down a littlebit so it looks like it's sitting down.And I'll give the dog a tail.So for that
I'll make a circle and thenmove this point this way and move this.Okay, so we've drawn one version of
our character andyou of course don't have to draw what I did.It could have totally different parts.You
could have one of the parts be a donut and onebe the frosting on the doughnut or cat ears and a
cat'sface, or an ice cream cone and an ice cream scoop.And you can make all these shapesout of really
simple circles and rectangles.So how do we make this a character designergame where the player can
actually modify the character.So you see how the character ismade up of these different parts.I'm going
to take each of these parts andput it in his own sprite, like a spritefor the ears and a sprite for the
tail.And then the player will be able to mix and match them.So here's how you do that.Pick one thing
that's going tobe a part of your character.So for me, the tail will be one part.I'll select the tail, I'll click
Copy, and nowI'm going to hover over choose a sprite andclick Paint to paint a new sprite.And then I'll
click Paste and there you go.Now you have a sprite with just the tail.I'll name this sprite tail.So let's do
that for all the other parts too.So I'll go back to my base character.I want both the ears to be one part.So
to copy them both, I can clickon one ear, then hold down Shift.And while I'm holding down Shift, click on
the other earand that way I select both of them and then I'llpress copy again and make a new sprite and
click Paste.There you go.I will call this one yours.I will select the eyes and the nose andcopy them and
make that be the face.And I will copy the head andbody and make that be the body.Oh, and I'm also
going to pick a background.You can use any background you want.I'll use stripes.OK, now I have all the
partsof my character as individual sprites.Let's hide the base character.We don't need it anymore.Now
that we have all the pieces.So we want to make all thesepieces go to the same spot.We don't want like
the ears over here.So here's how I do that.I'll click on one of the sprites, like thebody, and make it go to
a certain position.Like I'll make it go therewhen the green flag is clicked.And then for each of the other
pieces, likethe tail, I'll make that piece go to thebody when the green flag is clicked.So now the tail goes
to the same spot as the body.I'll give that same code to all of the pieces.One problem is that the face is
behind the body.So for any spray that you want to be atthe front, you just need to give it this code.Go to
front layer.And I want the tail to be behind the body,so I'll give it the code go to back layer.OK, we have
all our pieces starting in the same spot.Now comes the really fun part.We get to draw all the
differentoptions that the player can choose from.So I'll go to the ears and I'll add anew costume and
draw a pair of pointy ears becausethat could be a different option for the dog.You could start with a
circleand then move these points down.I will click copy and then paste.And I can also flip it.This way I
sometimes need to move themso that they're positioned right on the head.And I can also add different
color options.So if I duplicate this costume, I canjust set the ears to a different color.And you can have
whatever colors you want.You can have purple ears, blue ears, pink ears.It's your game.Now let's make
it so that theplayer can actually switch between the ears.If we go to the code tab, we canuse this next
costume block to switch between them.And how about we make it dothat when the ears are clicked?So
now the player can click on the ears to change them.And you can basically do thiswith all the different
pieces.So let's design a few other options.For the body, maybe I'll switch the color to a differentshade of
brown and add a white patch on the belly.And for the body, I'll also make it goto the next costume when
the sprite is clicked.So there you go.Now you have a game wherethe player can customize their
character.Now, if you don't feel like drawing, I'llshow you another way of doing this.That doesn't take
any drawing at all.You can always pick a basesprite from the sprite library.So maybe I'll pick the
penguin.And then we have a lot ofsprites that are items of clothing.You can find them in the fashion
category.So I'll choose the party hat and add thatand then you can make this item that youadded
change costume when you click it.So now I can customize my little penguin.So you can still totally make
this kindof project if you don't feel like drawing.And also, there's a link to this starter projectthat I made
today in the video description below.So you'll can always remix that andmodify it to make your own
project.Anyway, that's what I wanted to show you today.I hope you have fun making character designer
projects.I cannot wait to see them.I'll see you next time and scratch on.