Identity & Single Story
A narrow-focused interpretation of a person, their life, and/or their role in society, often reducing them down to a few key items.
What is: a single story?
The first fully computer-animated film.
What is: Toy Story?
The animation studio that created the animated film: Shrek.
What is: Dreamworks?
The animation style that features animating objects by taking pictures of them in slightly altered positions.
What is: Stop-Motion Animation?
The name of the lamp in pixar animated shorts that loves to stomp on the "i".
What is: Luxo Jr.?
The collection of the key things, defining features, and stories that make up how a person sees themself.
What is: Identity?
Before animation, this popular style of puppetry used light and shapes to show movement.
The animation studio that created the animated film: Big Hero 6.
What is: Disney?
The most important frames drawn by animators for each scene, later given to assistant animators to work with.
What are: Key frames?
The number of statues that Walt Disney was given when he won an Oscar for "Snow White".
What is: 8? (one large statue and seven small ones)
The animated film series featuring single story narratives about how certain animals are evil because of their biological eating habits.
What is: Zootopia (carnivores in Zootopia 1, and reptiles in Zootopia 2).
Many choices:
Scooby Doo, Flintstones, TMNT, Tom and Jerry, My Little Pony, The Jetsons, The Smurfs, Winnie the Pooh, Charly Brown, Garfield, Animaniacs, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Kim Possible, The Fairly Odd Parents, Spongebob Squarepants, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, The Powerpuff Girls, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ben 10, etc.
The animation studio that created the animated film: My Neighbor Totoro.
What is: Studio Ghibli?
A term that refers to drawing over live-action footage frame by frame.
What is: Rotoscoping?
The creators of this animated film studied at a summer school to better understand the physics of flight.
What is: How to Train Your Dragon?
The animated film featuring a princess who runs away from home to challenge her single-story narrative role and "change her fate".
What is: Brave?
The longest running cartoon/animated show in the United States
What is: The Simpsons?
The animation studio that created the animated film: Loony Toons.
What is: Warner Bros.?
The animation style that is typically drawn "on threes", with movement every 3 frames, instead of the more traditional movement-focused animation on "ones and twos".
What is: Anime?
The most expensive animated film ever made.
What is: Tangled? (Cost around 270 million; apparently it took 9 years to create decent modeling for her hair).
Oversimplifying people, culture, and events that perpetuate stereotypes and misinformation.
What are: The dangers of a single story?
The time of the "Golden Age" of animation within the United States. (Hint: The decade Snow White, Betty Boop, and Popeye were released).
What are: the 1930s-1950s (called the Golden Age for the Hand-Drawn style).
The animation studio that created the animated film: Coraline
What is: LAIKA?
The process by which computers automatically generate new frames between existing frames to give the illusion of smooth motion.
What is: Interpolation?
The part of the body most often removed from animated films in order to save money.
What is: the fifth finger on every hand?