12 Principles A
12 Principles B
12 Principles C
Principles continued + General Knowledge
General Animation
100
A basketball looks wider when it hits the floor and longer when it bounces up. This principle makes objects feel flexible and alive.
What is squash and stretch?
100
Before making an epic jumping off a diving board, a person bends their knees. This principle prepares the audience for an action.
What is Anticipation?
100
Animators use this principle to make sure the audience notices the most important part of a scene.
What is Staging?
100
A dog's ears keep flopping after it stops running. This principle describes movement that continues after the main action.
What is Follow Through?
100
This type of animation uses Vectors
What is 2D Animation?
200
A race car starts slowly, speeds up, and then slows down before stopping. This principle makes movement look natural.
What is Slow In and Slow Out?
200
Instead of moving in a straight line, a soccer ball follows a curved path through the air. This principle creates natural movement.
What are Arcs?
200
A character is talking while also shrugging their shoulders. The shrug is an example of this principle.
What is Secondary Action?
200
Making a surprised character's eyes much bigger than real life is an example of this principle.
What is Exaggeration?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This toy creates the illusion of motion by spinning a disk with two different pictures attached by strings.
*Wager your points up to 500! If you get it wrong there is no steal, but you lose the points you wagered*
What is a Thaumatrope?
300
Characters that are fun to watch and have a clear, interesting design show this principle.
What is Appeal?
300
An animator draws the beginning, middle, and end poses first, then fills in the rest. This technique is called this.
What s Pose-to-Pose Action?
300
An animator draws every frame in order from start to finish. This technique is called this.
What is Straight Ahead Action?
300
This type of animation often animates text, logos, and graphics used in advertisements or videos.
What is Motion Graphics?
300
This animation feature lets you see faded images of the previous and next frames while drawing.
What is Onion Skinning?
400
A character's arms, legs, and hair all move at slightly different times while running. This principle helps create realistic motion.
What is Overlapping Action?
400
If an animator adds more drawings to make a runner move at just the right speed, they are using this principle.
What is Timing?
400
What is Exaggeration?
400
2 Part question: What does FPS stand for? And what is the standard?
*! wrong answer = half points
FPS = Frames Per Second
Standard = 24 FPS
400
Claymation is a type of what kind of animation?
What is Stop Motion?
500
This method often creates more spontaneous, energetic motion.
What is Straight Ahead Action?
500
Which drawing method is often better for planning complex scenes?
What is Straight Ahead Action?
500
This is considered the 'main' and most important principle of animation. It gives objects flexibility, weight, and a sense of life.
What is squash and stretch?
500
Unlike a GIF, this image format supports transparency and is usually used for a single high-quality image.
A) .JPEG
B) .PNG
C) .PSD
D) .PDF
B) .PNG
500
Both thaumatropes and flipbooks rely on this effect, where our eyes briefly hold an image after it disappears.
What is Persistence of Vision?