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WorksheetsIntroduction to Animation
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
Creating the illusion of motion through accelerated display of static images differing slightly from one another refers to:
Animation
Production Process
Character Design
Storyboarding
Animation Industry is:
businesses and people designing, producing and distributing animations.
proposal outlining the features ad goals to be animated.
the visual appearance, basic characters and simple plots.
Each image in an animation is known as a/an
frame.
story idea.
animation.
design.
Story idea, audience identification, script writing, character design, storyboarding, audio, animation, delivery is all a part of the production process.
True
False
Story idea includes:
characters
environment
plot
all of the choices
A proposal to outline the features, goals and overall aspects of the animation is:
story idea.
script writing.
character design.
animation.
Audience Identification:
Defines whom the animation will most appeal to.
Age, Gender, Lifestyle, etc...
Determines content which will appear in the animation.
All of the choices
Description of Environments, action lines and animation, and dialog among characters are all a part of
script writing.
character design.
audience identification
all of the choices.
The creation of an animated person, animal or object is
character design.
production process.
story idea.
all of the choices.
The hand-drawn version of the arrangement of animation/illustrations depicting each scene is
Storyboarding
Script Writing
Production Process
Character Design
In 1877, Emil Reynaud invents what early animation projector?
Praxinoscope
Short Films
Girtie, The Trained Dinosaur
In 1928, Disney creates the iconic "Mickey Mouse" and the most well-known,
Steamboat Willie
Felix the Cat
Song Car-Tunes
In 1940, Bugs Bunny first appears in:
A Wild Hare
Puss Gets the Boot
Flowers and Trees
In 1960, the Flintstones airs, making it the first animated series created exclusively for release on primetime television.
True
False
In 1986, Pixar is founded and debuts what animated film nominated for Best Animated Short Film Oscar?
Luxo Jr.
Star Wars
Veggie Tales
Toy Story
Audio includes:
dialog
background music
sound effects
all of the above
Audio occurs:
before animating a character or scene
after animating a character or scene
Animation brings characters to life by (choose two)
designing the movements and facial expressions
matching the character's mouth to the audio
displaying key camera angles and main positions
matching storyboards like a comic strip
File types include GIF, AVI, MOV, APEC, MPEG, and SWF.
True
False
Affects how animation is distributed and viewed.
Platform
File type
Delivery Format
Broadcasts
Includes compressing data in order to create high image quality using a smaller data rate.
Delivery
Platform
File Type
Broadcasts
A cel animation that involves creating a series of 2D drawings by hand.
Traditional Animation
Computer Animation
Stop Motion Animation
Clay Animation
Digital creation of 3D objects which quickly replace images that have been slightly altered.
Computer Animation
Traditional Animation
Stop Motion Animation
Cut-Out Animation
An animation technique of using physical objects to produce an animation.
Stop Motion Animation
Claymation
Object Animation
Pixilation
The process of manipulating 3D figures and objects shaped out of clay in order to capture multiple frames.
Clay Animation
Pixilation
Object Animation
Traditional Animation
Involves the use of props and backgrounds cut from paper, cards, fabric or paper.
Cut-Out Animation
Pixilation Animation
Traditional Animation
Drawn-On-Film Animation
Object Animation is using 3D action figures or posed dolls or construction paper.
True
False
Pixilation uses live actors as the subject of 3D animated film.
True
False
Drawn-on-Film requires cel animation every time.
True
False
A tedious animation allowing the animator to create characters with fluid motion.
Pixilation
Drawn-on-Film
Paint-on-Glass
Object Animaiton
May be considered one of the earliest forms of animation. Does not require special tools, equipment or computer skills to create.
Traditional Animation
Drawn-on-Film Animation
Object Animation
Flipbook Animation
The actions of converting the design into a final product.
Industry
Production Techniques
Types and Methods
Animation Techniques
An efficient way to create transformation and movement over time
Interactivity
Motion Path
Looping
Tweening
Objects being moved from one position to another in any direction is called
Motion Path
Masking
Scripting/Programming
Interactivity
A production technique that is complete by altering layers.
Masking
Scripting
Interactivity
Looping
When repeating frames to help decrease the number of original frames necessary is called
Looping
Tweening
Motion Path
Interactivity
A programming language which provides each object unique animation rules.
Motion Path
Interactivity
Scripting
Programming
Allows the user to control and communicate with animation.
Interactivity
Motion Path
Stop Motion
Platform
