Animation Fundamentals
This historical figure took multiple photos of animals in motion to create animation on a Zoetrope.
Who is Eadweard Muybridge?
This type of graphic is made up of tiny pixels, making it resolution-dependent, and is the preferred format for digital photographs.
What is a Raster graphic?
The type of camera shot that frames the subject from the waist up.
What is a Medium Shot?
This principle of design is demonstrated through repetition, pattern, and rhythm.
What is Movement?
The general term for knowledge and original works that are protected by law, including copyright, patent, and trademark.
What is Intellectual Property?
These are the points created along a timeline to tell the program when and how to animate.
What are Keyframes?
This additive color model, used for digital art and websites, uses white as a combination of all primary colors.
What is RGB (Red Green Blue)?
The audio/video editing system that allows you to manage files of digital clips and place them on a timeline without destroying the original source material.
What is a Nonlinear Digital Editing System?
The design principle used to establish dominance in a composition.
What is Visual Hierarchy (or Emphasis)?
This federal agency is an example of a labor law that affects employment, ensuring equal opportunity and preventing harassment.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?
This type of animation operates in the X, Y, and Z axis, adding depth, and is also referred to as "Computer Animation."
What is 3D Animation?
This Raster file format is popular with web designers because it can handle graphics with transparent backgrounds, which is useful for logos.
What is PNG (Portable Network Graphic)?
This is the audio capture method that is used to achieve the cinematic look of film by recording sound on a device separate from the camera.
What is double-system audio capture?
These are the two contrasting principles that are compared in a design, often seen in examples like formal/symmetrical and informal/asymmetrical balance.
What are Unity and Variety?
The name for the document that illustrates the value of a project to a potential buyer, investor, or producer.
What is a media pitch?
The step in the animation process where the computer does the mathematical work to create the movement from point A to point B.
What is Spline?
What does "resolution independent" mean for a vector graphic?
A key characteristic of a Vector graphic is that it is resolution independent, meaning it is rendered by a mathematical formula and can scale as big as you want without losing quality.
An editing technique where you use filters, keying, and image control to add effects to your video.
What are special effects?
This principle is interpreted through contrast, isolation, size, and placement to draw the viewer's eye.
What is Emphasis?
These two federal organizations are examples of agencies whose regulations, such as those related to environmental and workplace safety, help a business maintain continuous improvement and regulatory compliance.
What are the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
This is a specific category of Stop Motion animation that uses pliable figures like those made of clay.
What is Claymation?
This subtractive color model uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (Black) inks and is the recommended color profile for professional print materials.
What is CMYK?
A type of microphone pattern that must be considered along with its intended use (e.g., handheld, lavalier, or boom).
What is a Polar Pattern (or type of transducer)?
This principle of design involves recognizing the size relationship between various elements in a composition.
What is proportion/scale?
The two types of financial documents that a media business must be able to create, analyze, and interpret to manage financial well-being.
What are budgets and income statements?