1.0 – Demonstrate Understanding of the Animation Field
2.0 – Demonstrate Knowledge of Legal and Ethical Issues Related to Animation
3.0 – Demonstrate Knowledge of Pre-Production Processes
4.0 – Demonstrate Knowledge of Production
5.0 – Demonstrate Knowledge of Post-Production
100
Traditional hand drawn animation. or (flat animation)
What is 2D-Animation
100
the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.
What is Copy right?
100
3-D Animation
What is Computer generated animation.
100
A painting or color sketch that illustrates what a particular sequence should look like in a film.
What is Color Key
100
The rate in frames per second at which the movie plays.
What is Playback rate
200
Digitally combining multiple levels of artwork.
What is Compositing
200
principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
What is Morallity
200
A trouble shooter/artist who deals with artists and technical issues on a 2-D film.
What is Artist Coordinator
200
A shadow that the character casts onto the ground or another object. Created digitally, or by an effects animator.
What is Contact Shadow
200
The process of refining an animator’s rough drawings into the final detailed drawings that will eventually be scanned and or painted to be used as part of the animation process.
What is Clean-up
300
An artist/actor who creates a series of drawings or frames that brings a character to life by establishing the personality, movement, emotion, and attitude of a character.
What is An Animator
300
A license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify. For online work you can select a license that generates "Some Rights Reserved" or a "No Rights Reserved" button and statement for your published work.
What is Creative Commons
300
The clear celluloid on which the characters were painted/drawn on during the animation process. Often made of acetate; the painted celluloid, or cell, is placed over a background and photographed, becoming one frame of the animated film.
What is Animation Cel
300
A painting or color sketch that illustrates what a particular sequence should look like in a film.
What is Color Key
300
A person who tracks time, productivity, and the expenditure of money for a film.
What is Production Auditor
400
The computer is used to make the animation process quicker and easier. It usually involves 2-D images that can be hand-drawn and scanned into the computer
What is Computer Assisted Animation
400
the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
What is plagiarism
400
A Rectangular drawing paper with holes punched in the bottom, which help keep individual animation drawings in registration to each other.
What is Animation Paper
400
Digitally combining multiple levels of artwork.
What is Compositing
400
How much information is contained in an image. Typically, resolution is measured by how many pixels there are in an image.
What is Resolution
500
An artist/actor who creates a series of drawings or frames that brings a character to life by establishing the personality, movement, emotion, and attitude of a character.
What is an Animator
500
moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior.
What are Ethics
500
A tracing that shows the path of action of an animation character after the animation is done. This is often used by 2-D layout and background artists so they can plan props and lighting effects that won’t interfere with the character’s movement.
What is Blue Sketch
500
A technique used to capture a live performance and turn it into a digital data which will later be used to drive a CG character. Also known as performance capture. This is a process that is used heavily in live action films as well as video games; and is used less and less in the animated films because of it’s high cost.
What is Motion Capture
500
A chunk of storytelling usually centered on a particular location or piece of business, such as a ballroom sequence, or a chase sequence.