How to create a character sprite in Scratch? Preview

The sprite is an image or animation that is part of the scene. Examples of sprites are buttons, player and enemy characters in every 2D game. Here's how you can create your own character in Scratch.

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  • 20 Mar 2020

To create a new sprite, we need to place the mouse on the cat image in the lower right corner, which will display a menu above it:

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There, you have to select the brush that the green arrow is pointing at in the image above. When you select the brush, the following window will open.

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Here you can use the available tools to draw your main character. When you are happy with your results, you can click the "Code" tab to go back:

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