Animation: Cambridge Technicals

Animation is a sequence of

• images
• sound
• word documents
• excel files

An example of 2D animation is

• Toy Story
• The Polar Express
• Snow White
• Wallace and Gromit

An example of Rotoscope animation is 

• Toy Story
• The Polar Express
• Snow White
• Wallace and Gromit

An example of Claymation animation is

• Wallace and Gromit
• Finding Nemo
• Avatar
• The Matrix

Tweening is

• Getting an object to move slowly
• Getting the computer to generate the movement or morphing between two frames
• Turning sound into an image
• Deleting items quickly

Lego animations are a great example of 

• Animated GIFs
• Stopframe Animation
• Rotoscoping
• Key Framing

The term for displaying a small range of animated movement in one picture for an object is called

• Claymation
• Onion Skinning
• Layering
• Descaling

In what year was Steamboat Willie released?

• 1908
• 1928
• 1901
• 2005

What made Steamboat Willie different to any previous cartoon?

• It was the first cartoon in colour
• It starred both Mickey and Minnie Mouse
• It used fully synchronised sound
• It was the first cartoon to be directed by Walt Disney

 True or False, Eadweard Muybridge (born 1830) pioneered 'Computer Animation' and created the first 3D film? 

• True
• False