Adobe Animate
The company that currently develops Adobe Animate.
Adobe
This principle squashes and stretches an object to illustrate its elasticity.
Squash and Stretch
The first instances of attempted animation and motion imagery by humans.
Cave Paintings
This Disney book first revealed and introduced the 12 basic principles of animation.
The Illusion of Life (by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston)
The tool you use in order to draw and make lines.
The Pen Tool
This principle is used to prepare the audience before executing an action.
Anticipation
The first animated film produced by Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
These artists are responsible for creating storyboards for advertising agencies and film productions.
Storyboard Artists
A style of animation whose defining feature is its "rubber hose limbs" — arms, and sometimes legs, that are typically drawn as flowing curves, without articulation (no hinged wrists or elbows).
Rubber Hose Animation
The tool you use in order to draw and make strokes. (Not the pen tool)
The Brush Tool
This principle is used to set the scene of an animation and to guide the audience's attention.
Staging
The decade The Walt Disney Company was founded.
The 1920s
These artists are responsible for filling-in the needed drawings or extra frames and work in tandem with the clean up team.
In-betweeners
This feature in most digital 2d animation software allows the animator to view several frames at once. This way, the animator or editor can make decisions on how to create or change an image based on the previous image in the sequence.
Onion Skinning
The tool you can use to rig and move a character.
The Bone Tool
This principle is used to ensure a character or object adheres to 3D space and its various aspects such as volume, weight, and depth.
Solid Drawing
The decade marks a period of time in which animations and animated shorts were used as wartime propaganda.
The 1940s
An essential part of animation to ensure a character's design remains consistent.
Character Reference Sheet
The number of apps and software Adobe currently provides.
Too many. (60+)
The version of ActionScript (the coding language Adobe Animate uses) Adobe Animate currently uses.
ActionScript 3.0
Name at least six principles of animation within the next 20 seconds.
Squash and Stretch, Anticipation, Staging, Straight Ahead & Pose-to-Pose, Follow Through & Overlapping Action, Slow in & Slow Out, Arc, Secondary Action, Timing, Exaggeration, Solid Drawing, Appeal
The year Adobe bought Macromedia, leading to their acquisition of Flash. (A year in the 2000s)
2005
The company that developed Flash before it was bought by Adobe.
Macromedia (Developers of Macromedia Flash and its predecessor, FutureSplash)
The amount of time or span of time I spent thinking about and making this.
This morning. (2 hours)