Tools
Techniques and Terms
Animation History
100
The primary tool for drawing in Adobe Animate.
What is the Classic Brush Tool? (or What is the Brush Tool?)
100
The individual images that make up an animation.
What are Frames?
100
The first full length Animated Film.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937)?
200
The Tool that is used to stretch, warp, and move a selected object on the stage.
What is the Free Transform tool?
200
Animation that is created by creating a painted background, and drawing different images over the background; opposite of computer animation.
What is Traditional Animation?
200
The first full length computer animated film, released in 1995.
What is Toy Story?
300
This tool is the go to for creating complex, detailed vector shapes. Uses points and lines.
What is the Pen Tool?
300
This is the term used when an animators only draw a new image every other frame.
What is Animating on Twos?
300
This was the first animation with recorded synchronized sound. (Hint: it was done by one of the most famous animators of all time in 1928.)
What is Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie?
400
This tool will automatically select objects on the current layer.
What is the Magic Wand tool?
400
This hand animating technique is used to make an object seem like it moving very fast, famously used in Looney Tunes cartoons.
What is Animation Smear?
400
The famous animator who left Walt Disney Studios and was a rival film maker for the 80s and 90s. (His movies include American Tale, Secret on Nimh, and The Land Before Time, and Anastasia.)
Who is Don Bluth?
500
My image is zoomed in too far, so I double click this tool to reset the zoom level.
What is the Hand Tool?
500
This is the typical frame rate for hand drawn animation.
What is 24 frames per second?
500
This film was the highest grossing film in Japan until last year. (Demon Slayer: Mugen Train just beat it!) Animated by world famous animator and director Hayao Miyazaki.
What is Spirited Away?