2D ANIMATION
3D ANIMATION
STOP-MOTION ANIMATION
FAMOUS ANIMATORS
VOCABULARY/TERMS
100

This network popularized 2D animated shows like Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack.

What is Cartoon Network?

100

This DreamWorks movie featured a talking ogre and won the first Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

What is Shrek?

100

This animation studio is famous for Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings.

What is Laika?

100

He co-founded Disney and created Mickey Mouse.

Who is Walt Disney?

100

The series of drawings that outline the major poses of an animation.

What is keyframes?

200

Name the 1928 cartoon that made Mickey Mouse famous.

What is Steamboat Willie?

200

This studio made the first fully 3D animated feature film.

What is Pixar?

200

This 1993 Tim Burton film used stop-motion to bring Halloween Town to life.

What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?

200

Known for The Iron Giant and Pixar’s The Incredibles.

Who is Brad Bird?
200

These are the frames drawn between keyframes.

What are inbetweens?

300

This popular Japanese style of 2D animation has influenced global culture.


What is anime?

300

Pixar’s first 3D animated feature film.


What is Toy Story?

300

This 2022 film reimagines a classic tale using wooden puppets.

What is Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio?

300

Creator of The Simpsons, Futurama, and Disenchantment?

Who is Matt Groening?

300

The technique used to exaggerate the deformation of an object during movement, giving it a sense of weight, flexibility, and life.

What is squash and stretch?

400

This TV series brought DC superheroes to 90s 2D animation with a dark, cinematic style.

What is Batman: The Animated Series?

400

This 3D animated sci-fi comedy TV Series ran from 2001 and featured talking aliens and a human boy.

What is Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius?

400

This British studio created Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit.

What is Aardman Animations?

400

This stop-motion animator/director is known for his work on ParaNorman and Missing Link.

Who is Chris Butler?

400

This principle gives objects a sense of weight before they move.

What is anticipation?

500

The Disney Renaissance era began with this 1989 film

What is The Little Mermaid?

500

In How to Train Your Dragon, what is the name of the rare dragon species that Toothless belongs to, known for its speed, intelligence, and plasma blasts?

What is Night Fury?

500

This stop-motion film, directed by Wes Anderson, is based on Roald Dahl's book.

What is Fantastic Mr. Fox?

500

Best known for creating the animated television series Gravity Falls.

Who is Alex Hirsch?

500

The principle where different body parts move at slightly different times for realism.

What is follow-through and overlapping action?

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