These are used to separate and hide objects or part of the scene.
What is a layer
100
An individual cut in an animation
What is a scene
100
The act of shaping an object by pulling faces, edges, or points out, or pushing them in.
What is extruding
100
The act of subdividing a surface to make it less rigid.
What is smoothing
200
The act of connecting two edges and creating a face.
What is bridging
200
A set of connected edges across a surface.
What is an edge loop
200
The addition of faces to an object
What is adding geometry
200
The subtraction of faces from a shape
What is subtracting geometry
200
The act of further dividing the faces of a shape.
What is subdividing geometry
300
The type of light used to lighten shadows.
What is a fill light
300
The main light source
What is a key light
300
A light used to illuminate the subject of a scene from the back.
What is back light
300
A light used to focus on a specific spot.
What is target ligthting
300
Shadows created by tracing the light rays from a light source
What are rayrtace shadows
400
aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section.
What is the rule of thirds
400
A drawing that defines the starting and ending points of any smooth transition.
What is a keyframe
400
This feature allows you to view the part of the frame that will be rendered
What is safe frames
400
Interpolation technique for surface shading. Also called vector interpolation shading
What is phong shading
400
System of organization used in animation
What is heirarchy
500
The main object, and the objects attached to it through a hierarchy
What are parent/child objects
500
An effect that creates the apparent streaking of rapidly moving objects
What is motion blur
500
Form of animation where physical objects are moved one frame at a time in order to create a fluid motion
What is stop motion animation
500
Computer Generated Imagery
What is CGI
500
3 dimensional shapes with faces, sides and, points.