2D Animation Quiz 1 Flashcards
Where the earliest art was found?
El Castillo cave in Cantabria, Spain
Some theories hold that ________ may have been a way of communicating with others
cave paintings
One of the earliest form of art dated 40 000 years ago
Cave Paintings
the Egyptian Pharaoh _______ built a temple to the goddess Isis which had 110 columns. Each column had a painted figure of the goddess in a progressively changed position.
Rameses II
Art form after cave paintings
Ancient Egyptian Writings
They sometimes decorated pots with figures in successive stages of action. Spinning the pot would create a sense of motion.
Ancient Greeks
The first attempt to project drawings onto a wall was made in ______ by ________
1640, Athonasius Kircher
The First Projector to project drawings onto a wall was called_____
‘Magic Lantern’
In 1824 He discovered the Vital principle “The persistence of vision”
Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget discovered the vital principle called ________
“The persistence of vision”
This principle rests on the fact that our eyes temporarily retain the image of anything they’ve just seen.
“The persistence of vision”
Roget’s principle gave birth to optical apparatus named __________
Thaumatrope
Invented by Dr. Plateau about 1833
The Phenakistoscope
One of the most important steps in the evolution of the motion picture
The Phenakistoscope
Another illusion toy introduced by William George Horner during 1834
Zoetrope
Same principle as Plateau’s Phenakistoscope but instead of discs the pictures and slots are combined in a rotating drum.
Zoetrope
Devised by the Frenchman Emile Reynaud in 1877.
Praxinoscope
The first flipbook was created in September 1868, when it was presented by __________ by the name ___________.
John Barnes Linnett , kineograph
was the first form of animation to employ a linear sequences of images rather than circular like phenakistoscope.
Flipbooks
__________ is a collection of combined pictures intended to be flipped over to give the illusion of movement and create an animated sequence from a simple small book or pad.
Flipbook
In 1896, a New York newspaper cartoonist
______________ interviewed the Inventor ___________ who was experimenting with moving pictures
James Stuart Blackton , Thomas Edison
Blackton did some sketches of Edison and was asked to do some series of drawings. Edison photographed these. This was the first combination of
drawings and photography.
In 1906, they publicly released ______ , where Blackton used 3000 flickering drawings to make this first animated picture
released ‘Humurous Phases of Funny Faces’
The forefather of the animated cartoon
James Stuart Blackton
Who made and showed his first animated film at the Follies Bergeres in Paris, and quoted “don’t do what camera can do – do what a camera can’t do!”
Emile Cohl
in 1911, __________ became a big hit when flashed on the screen at Hammerstein’s theatre in New York, with 4000 drawings
Little Nemo in Slumberland
___________ drew Gertie the Dinosaur and
he performed it live in front of the projected animation
Winsor McCay
One of the first interactive styled animation to be performed on stage with the artist.
Gertie the Dinosaur
1918, _______ dramatic cartoon depicting the sinking of a ship which needed 25,000 drawings
The Sinking of the Lusitania
In 1919, He created an American cartoon “Felix the Cat“ which became popular as Charlie Chaplin
Pat Sullivan
Created by Pat Sullivan which became popular as Charlie Chaplin
“Felix the Cat“
The first cartoon with synchronized sound (1928)
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse took off his appearance in
Steamboat Willie
He animated Jiminey Cricket in Pinocchio and the crows in Dumbo, which started to speak and make noises.
Ward Kimball
During this age, theatrical cartoons became an integral part of popular culture. These years are defined by the rise of Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Silly Symphonies), Warner Brothers, HannaBarbera, and Fleischer (Betty Boop, Popeye).
The Golden Age of American Animation
1932, Disney leapt forward again with __________ – the
first full color cartoon
Flowers and Trees
1937, Walt Disney produced the first full length animated feature film called _________
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
During this era, animation industry began to adapt to the fact that television continued its rise as the entertainment medium of choice for American families
The American Television Era
During the American Television Era, studios created many cartoons for TV, using a _______ style
“limited animation”
By the mid ‘80s, with help from cable channels such as ________ and ______ cartoons were ubiquitous on TV.
The Disney Channel and Nickolodeon
Hanna-Barbera releases _________, the first animated series on prime-time television
The Flintstones
Hanna-Barbera releases _________, the first animated series on prime-time television
The Flintstones
________ released the first animated series on prime-time television (The Flintstones)
Hanna-Barbera
is a spin-off of Huckleberry Hound (another Hanna-Barbera production), debuts on national TV
The Yogi Bear Show (1961)
The Yogi Bear Show is a spin-off of _______
Huckleberry Hound
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises wins the Academy Award for Best Short Film for ________ of the _____________ series and continues to create shorts for theatrical release.
The Pink Phink, Pink Panther
The Simpsons is an American adult animated sitcom created by _______ for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
Matt Groening
It is the longest-running American sitcom, the longest-running American animated program, and in 2009 it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted primetime television series.
The Simpsons
First Fully Computer Animated __________
Toy Story
The first revolution in animation was the arrival of ___________
digital options with computer generated imagery (CGI)
During this era, CGI (computer generated imagery) revolutionized animation
Modern American Era
This short film was the first fully CGI-animated film, created by The Graphics Group, the precursor to Pixar.
THE ADVENTURES OF ANDRE & WALLY B
______________ produced by Walt Disney Productions and Pixar Animation Studios, became the first full length feature film animated entirely on computers when it was released in 1995.
Toy Story
animation films have Graphics Design, Character Design, Computer Aided Animations, Visual Effects, etc. incorporated in the final output. This brings us to the phenomenal work done by _________ , which created an entirely new dimension to computer animation, Avatar.
James Cameron
The phenomenal work done by James Cameron, which created an entirely new dimension to computer animation.
Avatar
In 2009, _____ was awarded in Oscar for it exceptional ‘Special Effects’ and ‘3D Computer Animations’.
Avatar
____ is the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters
Big Hero 6
Who said “The only limitation in animation is the person doing it”
Emery Hawkins
Who said“If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney
“Animation is not reality. It’s much better!” and “We bring the inanimate to life, we create universes, we are magicians”
Nancy Beiman
________ is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2D or 3D artwork or model positions to create an illusion of movement
Animation
It involves the appearance of motion caused by displaying still images one after another.
Animation
It is the visual art of creating the illusion of motion through the successive display of still images with slightly perceptible changes in the positioning of images.
Animation
Ways to Animate
Change in SIZE
Change in POSITION
Change in ANGLE
Change in SPEED
Change in COLOR
Change of SHAPE
Type of animation which was used for most animated films of the 20th century. The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings, which are first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it.
Traditional Animation / Hand-drawn Animation
Traditional Animation is also known as
Hand-drawn Animation
Example of Traditional Animation is also known as
Flipbook
A ___ is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate used as a medium for painting animation frames.
cel
is 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 continuous sequence.
Stop-motion / Stop Frame
Stop motion is also known as ______
Stop Frame
This technique is commonly used in clay animation and puppet-based animation.
Stop-motion / Stop Frame
Examples of Stop-motion / Stop Frame
Clay animation and Cutouts animation
Different Types of Stop-motion Animation
Puppet Clay
Model Cutouts
Object Sand?
encompasses a variety of techniques, the unifying factor being that the animation is created digitally on a computer. This animation takes less time than previous traditional animation.
Computer/Graphic Animation
Examples /Graphic Animation
Examples are 2D and 3Danimation
______ animation means that the picture is drawn with help of two coordinates of geometry. These are designated as x (horizontal) coordinate and y (vertical) coordinate.
2D Animation
2D is flat which means that if a picture is turned to the side, then it becomes a ____.
line
_______ is the traditional animation method that has existed since the late 1800s
2D animation
_______ includes an extra dimension known as z coordinate which stands for rotation and depth.
3D Animation
_________ involves character sketching, character modeling, scene building, texturing, lighting and camera setup, rendering, editing and mixing etc. Other techniques that can be applied are the use of mathematical functions and the use of motion capture.
3D animation
