Animation Basics
An animation principle where an object's shape is exaggerated to create a sense of weight, flexibility, and life by compressing and elongating it, while maintaining its overall volume
What is "squash and stretch"?
A booklet with a series of images that gradually change from one page to the next, so that when the pages are viewed in quick succession, the images appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change.
What is "flipbook"?
A software that is commonly used for creating 2D animations.
What is "Adobe Animate"?
The creator of Mickey Mouse?
Who is "Walt Disney"?
This job involves designing characters for animated films.
What is "character designer"?
The sequence of images that creates an animation.
What are "frames"?
The method when animators use a video to create new animations.
What is "rotoscoping"?
A tool that we used to edit our stop-motion animations.
What is "Canva"?
This animator is known for the movie "Toy Story."
Who is "John Lasseter"?
This career focuses on designing overall gameplay, characters, and environments for video games.
What is "game designer"?
The term for the speed at which an animation plays?
What is "frame rate"?
A cinematographic technique whereby the camera is repeatedly stopped and started, for example to give animated figures the impression of movement.
What is "stop motion"?
A popular software for 3D animation.
What is "Blender"?
This animator is famous for creating the animated series "The Simpsons."
Who is "Matt Groening"?
This career focuses on story development in animation.
What is "storyboard artist"?
A sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production.
What is "storyboarding"?
Computer-generated imagery (special visual effects created using computer software).
What is "CGI"?
A program that is widely used for creating animated text and graphics.
What is "Adobe After Effects"?
The animator famous for the film "Spirited Away."
Who is "Hayao Miyazaki"?
This person's job is to oversee the visual style and artistic direction of an animation project.
What is "Animation director?" What is "Art director?"
The difference between 2D and 3D animation.
What is "2D animation is flat, while 3D animation has depth and volume"?
A term for animating objects to move in a way that mimics real-world physics.
What is "motion graphics"?
Adevice with a translucent surface and an even light source underneath, is primarily used for tracing or in-betweening drawings
What is "light table"? What is "light box"?
This person pioneered the use of computer animation in films. They are also the co-founder of Pixar.
Who is "Ed Catmull"?
This person's job is to provide voices for animated characters.
What is "voice actor"?