Animation

Animation is ...

• the use of mechanical robots for public entertainment

• when someone dances to a song

• the art of creating the optical illusion of moving pictures

• watching the world go by

When a set of related images are shown rapidly one after another, people sense them as one continuous motion picture. This effect is called what?

• persistence of animation

• persistence of motion

• persistence of rapidity

• persistence of vision

The oldest (and easiest) animation is called the

A single image within the complete animation sequence is called what?

What is the speed at which each frame is presented to the viewer called?

What are the frames called that are manually created, and are the important frames that are used to automatically create the in-between frames from?

• Tweenframe

• Keyframe

• Renderframe

• Lockframe

The process where the content of the frames between the keyframes are created automatically by the animation software so that the animation glides smoothly from one keyframe to the next is called what?

You set up a clay model or some other kind of model, then take a photograph and store the image. Then alter the model slightly such as moving an arm, leg, face and so on, then take another image. You carry on doing this until the whole story has been told.

What does the above describe?

• Stop-motion animation

• Clay-motion animation

• Stopmation animation

• Automation animation

A live actor is filmed doing the actions required - a sword fight maybe. Then the animator takes the video into an animation package and draws around the actor, frame by frame. What is this technique called?

Animation has many practical purposes. Which of the below could use animation?

• To draw attention

• For interactive quizzes

• To breathe life into lifeless animals

• For advertising banners

• To help with homework