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Animation
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1. An American animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop - Koko the Clown - Popeye - and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innova
Slow in and slow out
Animation
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Staging
2. An early motion picture exhibition device. Though not a movie projector—it was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components—it introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all
Kinetoscope
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
Overlapping action
Praxinoscope
3. Two different approaches to the actual drawing process. One draws out a scene frame by frame from beginning to end. One involves starting with drawing a few key frames and then filling in the intervals later. One is best for creating a more fluid - d
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
Flip book
Leading
Pose-to-Pose
4. The predecessor of the modern day projector. It consisted of a translucent oil painting and a simple lamp. When put together in a darkened room - the image would appear larger on a flat surface. Some slides for the lanterns contained parts that could
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Magic Lantern
Anticipation
Pre-synchronous sound
5. In a cartoon character this corresponds to what would be called charisma in an actor. A character who has this characteristic is not necessarily sympathetic — villains or monsters can also be appealing — the important thing is that the viewer feels t
Pre-synchronous sound
Appeal
Newton's 3 Laws of Motion
Story Arcs
6. In typography - it refers to the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type.
Flip book
Slow in and slow out
Leading
Turn around
7. Invented by French scientist Charles-Émile Reynaud - it was a more sophisticated version of the zoetrope. It used the same basic mechanism of a strip of images placed on the inside of a spinning cylinder - but instead of viewing it through slits - it
Exaggeration
Praxinoscope
Zoetrope
Persistence of Vision
8. This principle's purpose is to direct the audience's attention - and make it clear what is of greatest importance in a scene; what is happening - and what is about to happen. Johnston and Thomas defined it as "the presentation of any idea so that it
Staging
Multi-plane Camera
Disney (December 5 - 1901 - December 15 - 1966)
Stop motion
9. An English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion - and his zoopraxiscope - a device for projecting motion pictures that pre
Anticipation
Thaumatrope
Blackton (January 5 - 1875 - August 13 - 1941)
Muybridge (9 April 1830 - 8 May 1904)
10. A French caricaturist who made "Fantasmagorie" which is considered to be the first fully animated film ever made. It was made up of 700 drawings - each of which was double-exposed - leading to a running time of almost two minutes.
Leading
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Secondary action
Cohl (January 4 - 1857 - January 20 - 1938)
11. A 1937 American animated film produced by Walt Disney. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm - it is the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history - the first animated feature film produced in America - the first
Anticipation
Squash and Stretch
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
12. A spinning disc attached vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look throu
Universal Theme
Phenakistoscope
Mutoscope
Follow Through
13. 1.) The velocity of a body remains constant unless the body is acted upon by an external force. 2.) The acceleration (a) of a body is parallel and directly proportional to the net force (F) and inversely proportional to the mass (m) - F = ma 3.) The
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14. This is when the animation is created first - then audio is added later. Sound effects are used to complement the spatial and temporal settings established by the visuals.
Pose-to-Pose
Post-synchronous sound
Turn around
Staging
15. The movement of the human body - and most other objects - needs time to accelerate and slow down. For this reason - animation looks more realistic if it has more drawings near the beginning and end of an action - emphasizing the extreme poses - and f
Post-synchronous sound
Squash and Stretch
The Illusion of Life
Slow in and Slow out
16. An American cartoonist and animator. His pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries - and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades. His two best-known creations are the newspaper comic strip
McCay (September 26 - 1869 - July 26 - 1934)
Slow in and slow out
Muybridge (9 April 1830 - 8 May 1904)
Straight ahead action
17. Separate parts of a body will continue moving after the character has stopped.
Sullivan (2 February 1887 - 15 February 1933)
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Newton's 3 Laws of Motion
Follow Through
18. A book with a series of pictures that vary gradually from one page to the next - so that when the pages are turned rapidly - the pictures appear to animate by simulating motion or some other change.
Persistence of Vision
Universal Theme
Flip book
Turn around
19. An animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames - creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a co
Stop motion
Sullivan (2 February 1887 - 15 February 1933)
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
Overlapping action
20. An 1908 French animated film by Amile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation - and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon.
Fantasmagorie
Story Arcs
Animation
Disney (December 5 - 1901 - December 15 - 1966)
21. A Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and other animals as his protagonists.
Fantasmagorie
Anticipation
Starevich (August 8 - 1882 - February 26 - 1965)
The Illusion of Life
22. This is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton released in 1906. It features a cartoonist drawing faces on a chalkboard - and the faces coming to life. It is generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film.
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Drag
Persistence of Vision
Straight ahead action
23. An early motion picture device that provided viewing to one person at a time. Worked on the same principle as the flip book. Quickly dominated the coin-in-the-slot "peep-show" business.
Follow through and overlapping action
Blackton (January 5 - 1875 - August 13 - 1941)
Mutoscope
Disney (December 5 - 1901 - December 15 - 1966)
24. The most important principle is this - the purpose of which is to give a sense of weight and flexibility to drawn objects. It can be applied to simple objects - like a bouncing ball - or more complex constructions - like the musculature of a human fa
Anticipation
Zoetrope
Squash and Stretch
Anticipation
25. Helps render movement more realistic and gives the impression that characters follow the laws of physics. Exaggerated used of the technique can produce a comical effect - while more realistic animation must time the actions exactly to produce a convi
Follow through and overlapping action
Stop motion
Tracking
Steamboat Willie
26. In typography - it is the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all letters in a block of text.
Multi-plane Camera
Overlapping action
Flip book
Tracking
27. A sound-track or music that has not been carefully timed to fit the picture. Music and animation are both "time arts" and will thus eventually synchronize at random points.
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
Slow in and Slow out
Malias (8 December 1861 - 21 January 1938)
Non-synchronous sound
28. Acknowledged by people everywhere as having some deep or central relevance to everyone. They might have to do with life in general - human nature - faith - courage - basic life transitions - love - loss - and any number of other things.
Universal Theme
Timing
Multi-plane Camera
Story Arcs
29. A 1928 American animated short film produced in black-and-white by The Walt Disney Studio. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse. The film is also notable for being one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound.
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Leading
Anticipation
Steamboat Willie
30. Renderings of a character standing in multiple positions including facing front - 3/4 front - profile - 3/4 rear - and rear.
Persistence of Vision
Turn around
Pose-to-Pose
Flip book
31. A simple toy used in the Victorian era. It is a small circular disk or card with two different pictures on each side that was attached to a piece of string or a pair of strings running through the centre. When the string is twirled quickly between th
Appeal
Thaumatrope
Universal Theme
Squash and Stretch
32. Where a character starts to move and parts of him take a few frames to catch up.
Squash and Stretch
Theatre Optique
Drag
Persistence of Vision
33. A special motion picture camera used in the traditional animation process that moves a number of pieces of artwork past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another.
Multi-plane Camera
Phenakistoscope
McCay (September 26 - 1869 - July 26 - 1934)
The Illusion of Life
34. Most natural action tends to follow an arched trajectory - and animation should adhere to this principle by following implied "arcs" for greater realism. This can apply to a limb moving by rotating a joint - or a thrown object moving along a paraboli
Secondary action
Drag
Arcs
Follow through and overlapping action
35. Used to prepare the audience for an action - and to make the action appear more realistic. A dancer jumping off the floor has to bend his knees first; a golfer making a swing has to swing the club back first. The technique can also be used for less p
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
Non-synchronous sound
Anticipation
Staging
36. Adding these to the main action gives a scene more life - and can help to support the main action. A person walking can simultaneously swing his arms or keep them in his pockets - he can speak or whistle - or he can express emotions through facial ex
Secondary action
Pre-synchronous sound
Keyframe
Starevich (August 8 - 1882 - February 26 - 1965)
37. A silent film made in 1900. It was directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
Thaumatrope
Pose-to-Pose
Anticipation
The Enchanted Drawing
38. A drawing that defines the starting and ending points of any transition.
Staging
Anticipation
Keyframe
Pre-synchronous sound
39. One of the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation.
Kinetoscope
Blackton (January 5 - 1875 - August 13 - 1941)
Thaumatrope
Animation
40. It is called this because an animator literally works directly from the first drawing in the scene. This process usually produces drawings and action that have a fresh and slightly zany look - because the whole process is kept very creative. This tec
Magic Lantern
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Straight ahead action
Persistence of Vision
41. In typography - it is a slight projection finishing off a stroke of a letter.
Serif
McCay (September 26 - 1869 - July 26 - 1934)
Universal Theme
Arcs
42. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Émile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Theatre Optique
Fantasmagorie
Secondary action
The Enchanted Drawing
43. The classical definition - employed by Disney - was to remain true to reality - just presenting it in a wilder - more extreme form. Other forms of of this technique can involve the supernatural or surreal - alterations in the physical features of a c
Cohl (January 4 - 1857 - January 20 - 1938)
Mutoscope
Squash and Stretch
Exaggeration
44. Considered the most important principle. Gives a sense of weight and flexibility to drawn objects - In realistic animation - the most important aspect of this principle is the fact that an object's volume does not change when the effect is applied. I
Tracking
Follow through and overlapping action
Pose-to-Pose
Squash and Stretch
45. Adds more frames near the beginning and near the end of a movement - and fewer in the middle - to make the animation appear more realistic. This principle applies to both characters moving between two extreme poses and inanimate - moving objects.
Follow Through
Squash and Stretch
Turn around
Slow in and slow out
46. A French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. He was a prolific innovator in the use of special effects - accidentally discovered the substitution stop trick in 1896 -
The Illusion of Life
Malias (8 December 1861 - 21 January 1938)
Animation
Zoetrope
47. The tendency for parts of the body to move at different rates (an arm will move on different timing of the head and so on).
Universal Theme
Flip book
Overlapping action
Slow in and slow out
48. An animation technique in which key poses are created to establish timing and placement of characters and props in a given scene or shot.
Blocking
Appeal
Stop motion
Solid Drawing
49. Used to prepare the audience for an action and to make the action appear more realistic. For example a dancer jumping off the floor has to bend his knees first; a golfer making a swing has to swing the club back first. For special effect - can be omi
Anticipation
Slow in and Slow out
Cohl (January 4 - 1857 - January 20 - 1938)
Non-synchronous sound
50. The earliest elementary form of this device was created in China around 180 AD. The modern device was produced in 1834. The device is essentially a cylinder with vertical slits around the sides. Around the inside edge of the cylinder there are a seri
Zoetrope
Starevich (August 8 - 1882 - February 26 - 1965)
Magic Lantern
Turn around