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Animation
Virtual Reality
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Define computer animation.
What are creating a digital scene from pictures and digitally recording cells, sorting them on an electronic storyboard and then displaying them electronically in succession?
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Simplest of virtual reality interface devices.
What is a WAND?
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Refers to the way our eyes retain images for a split second longer than they actually appear (makes a series of quick flashes appear as one continuous movement). (3 words)
What is Persistence of Vision?
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The higher the FPS (Frames per second) the lower quality the action is.
What is FALSE? Higher FPS = Higher, Smoother Quality (think King Kong)
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Animation process that uses keyframes between two images.
What is Tweening?
200
Morphing
What is transforming one thing into another? (Metamorphasizing or Metamorphasis)
200
HMD
What is a Head Mounted Display - a helmet used in Virtual Reality that has a device on the top that signals head movements to a computer?
200
Define stage as it relates to animation.
What is the part of the animation program window where the animation's content is composed and manipulated (created and edited)?
200
Virtual Reality is 3-dimensional, interactive and involves the human senses.
What is TRUE?
200
Storyboard
What are small drawings and captions arranged in chronological order that show the action of an animation which helps the animator plan the structure.
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Part of the animation program that changes appearance or shows movement.
What is keyframe?
300
Two requirements of Vitural Reality.
What are high performance computers and specialized software and hardware?
300
Bandwidth
What is the amount of data that can be transmitted over a network in a given amount of time?
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Streaming is a procedure for transmitting media files so they can start playing as soon as a PC begins receiving information rather than waiting for the complete files to download first.
What is TRUE?
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Hand drawn animation is also called:
What is cel animation?
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Stop Motion Animation
What is manipulating real-world objects and photographing them one frame at a time? Example: Clay Animation
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Name 3 advantages of a CAVE virtual reality interface system.
What are the most immersive; newest; like climbing into the computer screen; can have multiple users; only need glasses and a wand and sound can be added to images.
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You want to coordinate a meeting of people all over the world so everyone can see each other on their computers.
What is telepresence?
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In a CAVE environment for Virtual Reality, a viewing screen adds depth to flat pictures.
What is FALSE? This is describing a characteristic of the HMD (head mounted display).
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History of Virtual Reality.
What is started in the late 1920's with flight simulators and the breakthrough movie was in the 1970s - Star Wars. Today Avatar is the breakthrough movie and many VR games exist (Halo, Wii, etc.)
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5 parts of an animation program (there are 7)
What is Stage – part of program where the content is created and manipulated;Library – used to store frequently used files; Timeline – used to organize the content; Frame – one individual image in an animation; Keyframe – indicates where an action is to occur; Layers –the timeline can be divided into different layers to give the author more control over different elements such as sound and text; Playhead – the vertical red marker in the timeline that shows which frame is the current frame as the animation plays.
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Name three types of Virtual Reality.
What are Desktop - no additional equipment needed and includes 3-D graphics; Immersion - most effective, requires additional equipment and isolates eyes, ears and other body senses from the real enviroment; Telepresence - Allows a person to interact with another live, real place at a different location?
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Summarize the WAV format.
What are WAV files are the standard format for sound on computers running the Windows operating system. They generate files with high-quality sound but result in very large file sizes. When creating or editing sound, WAV files are typically used until all editing is finished. The final sound file is then saved in a more compressed file format such as MP3.
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Having different layers is very important in an animation.
What is TRUE? (remember your animations -- sound and text were on different layers)
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Name 6 characteristics of Virtual Reality.
What are simulated environment, computer generated graphics, 3-D, interactive, involves senses and exists in many forms.