History
This U.S. city is where Walt Disney ran the Laugh-O-Gram Studio before moving to Hollywood.
What is Kansas City?
This early Disney technique involved drawing each frame by hand on transparent sheets that were then photographed over painted backgrounds.
What is Cel animation?
Of the seven dwarfs, he is the only one who does not have a beard.
Who is Dopey?
This 2016 animated film features two royal sisters and a snow-covered kingdom.
What is Frozen?
This is a sequence of drawings showing key shots, camera framing, and major action; it’s used to plan timing, composition, and the overall visual flow of an animated scene.
What is a storyboard?
This Mickey Mouse short was the first to feature a synchronized, pre-recorded musical soundtrack.
What is "Steamboat Willie" (1928)?
A technique when live-action performers to are used to capture realistic motion and timing (often traced).
What is rotoscoping?
This 1989 song, sung by a Caribbean crab, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
What is "Under the Sea?"
WALL-E’s favorite, and only, VHS tape to watch is this 1969 musical starring Barbra Streisand.
What is Hello, Dolly!?
A reference sheet showing character designs, expressions, poses, and proportions; it ensures consistency across different animators and scenes.
What is a model sheet?
In 1986, this Apple co-founder bought the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm that would become Pixar.
Who is Steve Jobs?
This Disney Renaissance film was the first to use a mix of drawn and CGI animation.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
Released in 1950, this was the first Disney animated film to have its songs published and copyrighted by a new music publishing division of the studio.
What is Cinderella?
Ember from Elemental has a unique talent for creating this art form.
What is glassblowing?
A drawing or frame that defines the start or end point of a motion; keyframes set the main poses and timing, while other frames are created to connect them.
What is a keyframe?
This is the name of the pizza restaurant chain that appears in every Toy Story film.
What is Pizza Planet?
To make the characters look like real toys in Toy Story 4, animators focused heavily on this technique, which mimics how light bounces off surfaces like plastic and metal.
What is global illumination (or ray tracing)?
In Aladdin, the Genie makes several pop-culture jokes. Which comic actor voiced the Genie in the original 1992 animated film?
Who is Robin Williams?
The role-playing game that inspires Barley in Onward is named "Quests of _____".
What is Yore?
The process of creating intermediate frames between keyframes to produce smooth motion; it fills the movement so action appears fluid.
What is Inbetweening (tweening)?
This future pop star and *NSYNC member was a cast member on the 1990s revival of the Mickey Mouse Club.
Who is Justin Timberlake?
Pixar developed a specialized software called "Fizt" to simulate the movement of this, which was necessary to make Sulley in Monsters Inc.
What is fur?
This location is often hidden by the animation community as the code "A113" in Disney films.
What is a classroom room number at the California Institute of the Arts?
This film marked Disney's return to this traditional animation style for the first time since 2004’s Home on the Range.
What is Princess and the Frog?
In modern 3D pipeline, this term refers to the skeleton placed inside a 3D model, which is then moved by animators to create motion.
What is Rigging (or Rig)?