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Animation
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it-skills
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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
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Slow in and slow out
Exaggeration
Solid Drawing
2. This principle means taking into account forms in three-dimensional space - giving them volume and weight. The animator needs to be a skilled draughtsman and has to understand the basics of three-dimensional shapes - anatomy - weight - balance - ligh
Solid Drawing
Steamboat Willie
Post-synchronous sound
Secondary action
3. 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.
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
The Illusion of Life
Post-synchronous sound
Theatre Optique
4. 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
Disney (December 5 - 1901 - December 15 - 1966)
Pre-synchronous sound
McCay (September 26 - 1869 - July 26 - 1934)
5. 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
Anticipation
Straight ahead action
The Enchanted Drawing
Post-synchronous sound
6. The speed of an action gives meaning to movement - both physical and emotional meaning. The animator must spend the appropriate amount of time on the anticipation of an action - on the action - and on the reaction to the action. If too much time is s
Persistence of Vision
Sullivan (2 February 1887 - 15 February 1933)
Timing
Keyframe
7. 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
Sullivan (2 February 1887 - 15 February 1933)
Squash and Stretch
Magic Lantern
Secondary action
8. 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
Solid Drawing
Pose-to-Pose
Anticipation
Magic Lantern
9. Where a character starts to move and parts of him take a few frames to catch up.
Kinetoscope
Drag
Flip book
Pose-to-Pose
10. An Australian cartoonist - pioneer animator and film producer - best known for producing the first Felix the Cat silent cartoons.
Sullivan (2 February 1887 - 15 February 1933)
Post-synchronous sound
Solid Drawing
Universal Theme
11. 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.
Pose-to-Pose
Follow through and overlapping action
Universal Theme
Blocking
12. Separate parts of a body will continue moving after the character has stopped.
Drag
Kinetoscope
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Follow Through
13. 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
Arcs
Serif
Phenakistoscope
The Enchanted Drawing
14. 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.
Newton's 3 Laws of Motion
Slow in and slow out
Overlapping action
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
15. 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
Newton's 3 Laws of Motion
Non-synchronous sound
Praxinoscope
Serif
16. 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.
Drag
Flip book
Zoetrope
Serif
17. An animation technique in which key poses are created to establish timing and placement of characters and props in a given scene or shot.
Story Arcs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
Blocking
18. 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
Anticipation
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Kinetoscope
Serif
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
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pose-to-Pose
Theatre Optique
Stop motion
20. A silent film made in 1900. It was directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
Timing
The Enchanted Drawing
Blackton (January 5 - 1875 - August 13 - 1941)
Anticipation
21. In this type of animation - the animator plans his action - figuring out just what drawings will be needed to animate the scene. This is used for animation that requires good acting - where poses and timing are important.
Pose-to-Pose
Non-synchronous sound
Tracking
Keyframe
22. 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
Animation
Staging
Solid Drawing
Appeal
23. They have a beginning (setup) middle (conflict) and end (resolution). Oftentimes - in the end the character achieves the goal and better understands themselves.
Cohl (January 4 - 1857 - January 20 - 1938)
Magic Lantern
Story Arcs
Slow in and Slow out
24. 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.
Slow in and slow out
Non-synchronous sound
Follow through and overlapping action
Exaggeration
25. 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
Exaggeration
Timing
Slow in and Slow out
Secondary action
26. 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
27. An American film producer - director - screenwriter - voice actor - animator - entrepreneur - entertainer - international icon - and philanthropist - well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his b
Stop motion
The Illusion of Life
Disney (December 5 - 1901 - December 15 - 1966)
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
28. In typography - it is the process of uniformly increasing or decreasing the space between all letters in a block of text.
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Squash and Stretch
Exaggeration
Tracking
29. 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
Follow Through
Sullivan (2 February 1887 - 15 February 1933)
Staging
Thaumatrope
30. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Émile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
McCay (September 26 - 1869 - July 26 - 1934)
Phenakistoscope
Theatre Optique
Stop motion
31. 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
Drag
Mutoscope
Stop motion
Arcs
32. 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
Mutoscope
McCay (September 26 - 1869 - July 26 - 1934)
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
Appeal
33. 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
McCay (September 26 - 1869 - July 26 - 1934)
Squash and Stretch
Multi-plane Camera
Drag
34. 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.
Follow Through
Fantasmagorie
Blocking
Straight ahead action
35. 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
Stop motion
Follow through and overlapping action
Secondary action
The Illusion of Life
36. Directs the audience's attention and makes it clear what is of greatest importance in a scene. Presents the idea in a complete and unmistakable method. Keeps the focus on what is relevant and avoids unnecessary detail.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Staging
Praxinoscope
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
37. 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.
Mutoscope
Leading
Fantasmagorie
Drag
38. 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.
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Starevich (August 8 - 1882 - February 26 - 1965)
Steamboat Willie
McCay (September 26 - 1869 - July 26 - 1934)
39. A Russian and French stop-motion animator who used insects and other animals as his protagonists.
Starevich (August 8 - 1882 - February 26 - 1965)
Leading
The Enchanted Drawing
Post-synchronous sound
40. Renderings of a character standing in multiple positions including facing front - 3/4 front - profile - 3/4 rear - and rear.
Phenakistoscope
Turn around
Exaggeration
Straight ahead action and pose to pose
41. In typography - it refers to the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type.
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Leading
Squash and Stretch
Anticipation
42. 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 -
Squash and Stretch
The Illusion of Life
Phenakistoscope
Malias (8 December 1861 - 21 January 1938)
43. A drawing that defines the starting and ending points of any transition.
Thaumatrope
Exaggeration
Newton's 3 Laws of Motion
Keyframe
44. 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).
Muybridge (9 April 1830 - 8 May 1904)
Exaggeration
Overlapping action
Fantasmagorie
45. 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
Staging
Staging
Slow in and Slow out
Anticipation
46. 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
Starevich (August 8 - 1882 - February 26 - 1965)
Leading
Anticipation
47. The rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.
Thaumatrope
Staging
Serif
Animation
48. One of the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation.
Blackton (January 5 - 1875 - August 13 - 1941)
Thaumatrope
Multi-plane Camera
Follow through and overlapping action
49. 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
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Fleischer (July 19 - 1883 - September 11 - 1972)
Solid Drawing
Persistence of Vision
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
Anticipation
Blocking
Secondary action
Zoetrope