Animators
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Analysis
100

This animator began the Golden Age of Animation in 1928.

Who is Walt Disney?

100

This 1926 animation by Lotte Reiniger utilized black, hand-cut paper for characters and setting.

What is The Adventures of Prince Achmed?

100

The opposite of positive space.

What is negative space?

100

Describing the visual appearance of an animation is considered what kind of analysis?

What is Formal Analysis?

200

This animator was credited with inventing rotoscoping.

Who is Dave Fleischer?
200

This series of early Disney shorts helped in establishing cartoon forms and process.

What are The Silly Symphonies?

200

The act of tracing over a live action image with animation.

What is rotoscoping?

200

These were the first historical examples of animated or sequenced drawings.

What are cave paintings?

300

This animator created the first feature-length animation.

Who is Lotte Reiniger?

300

This animated pair is credited with winning 7 Oscars in a 10 year span during the Golden Age.

Who are Tom and Jerry?

300

This invention allowed for greater depth in animation by utilizing layers of glass.

What is the multiplane camera?

300

Understanding characters, plot, and dialogue are examples of this type of analysis.

What is narrative analysis?

400

This animator didn't realize that they were inventing animation when they took pictures of a horse in 1878.

Who is Eadweard Muybridge?

400

This Dave Fleischer creation interacts directly with the animator in a 1920s animated series.

Who is Koko the Clown?

400

The amount of individual images show in a second of animation.

What is framerate or FPS?

400

To point out the upstream and/or downstream effects of an animation is what kind of analysis?

What is cultural/historical analysis?

500

These two animators are credited with working for 3 of the 4 animation studios during The Golden Age.

Who are Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising?

500

This 2015 animated short by Don Hertzfeldt was nominated for an Academy Award.

What is The World of Tomorrow?

500

This precursor form of cinema utilized sequenced photographs displayed as charts, similar to a comic strip.

What is Chronophotagraphy?

500

To view film as a _____________ means to understand it as a man-made process and your own experience as connected to it.

What is a screen?

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