Animation

Question 1

What is motion capture?

Answer 1

Uses special markers to collect video to allow animators to create the animations based on movements

Question 2

What is motion tweening?

Answer 2

Motion Tweening is a process where the user defines the start and finish of key frames and the system automatically calculates and create the in- between frames.

Question 3

What is stop frame animation?

Answer 3

The process involves recording the position of an object (normally a photograph) then a small incremental change is made and new position is recorded.

Question 4

Describe post editing transitions

Answer 4

Transitions are used for post-editing animations to enhance them by: smoothening the transition from one scene to the next, emphasising detail, creating dramatic effects

Question 5

Name some examples of post editing transitions

Answer 5

Blending, fading, zoom, overlays (image overlay, text overlays, picture in picture)

Question 6

Advantages of Motion Capture

Answer 6

• It is accurate, very realistic and reliable.
• Produces realistic results to human movement making it perfect for simulating and animating real life situations.
• The benefits of this latest technology are that there is an increase in accuracy and a reduction of set up time, reducing the overall costs.

Question 7

Disadvantages of Motion Capture

Answer 7

• It is expensive to set up and time consuming.
• Requires trained specialist and sometimes actors to replicate movements increasing costs.
• The process is complex and requires specialist software and can only recreate human abilities (restricted), huge amount of data created that needs to be processed.

Question 8

Advantages of Stop Frame Animation

Answer 8

• Stop frame animation has a relatively low set up cost
• widely available, anyone with a phone/ camera can create a stop frame.
• easy-to-use software, simple process.

Question 9

Disadvantages of Stop Frame

Answer 9

• Labour intensive and time consuming due to model making process and capture process of taking ever individual shot.
• Limited by quality of model and accuracy of movement.
• Requires specialist staff.

Question 10

Advantages of Motion Tweening

Answer 10

• The benefits of this process is that it gives a smoother animation without the need to draw every frame, giving a quicker more cost effective animation,
• complex plotting path of movement is done be the computer.
• it can animate a number of frames very quickly.
• Excellent for 2D animations.
• Can be extended to 3D walkthroughs using fly through paths for cameras.

Question 11

Disadvantages of Motion Tweening

Answer 11

• Expensive software required.
• Movement and quality is determined by the expertise of the animator.

Question 12

Advantages of Transitions

Answer 12

-Smoothening the transition from one scene to the next,
-Emphasising detail
-Creating dramatic effects to enhance the mood/feel/ of a scene