Software

Question 1

Auto Tangent

Answer 1

Curve editor mode in which curves are smoothed and overshoots eliminated.

Question 2

Constraint

Answer 2

Lock position and rotation of an object on another to link it. For example, a hand on a door.

Question 3

Contact

Answer 3

Contact between an object or body part to another. Take care about the “landings” or when the contact is created and “takes off” moments in which the object leaves the contact.

Question 4

FK

Answer 4

O Forward Kinematic, Technique used by the computer to calculate the position of the parts of a structure according to their joints.

Question 5

Frame

Answer 5

Image in a succession of images.

Question 6

Ghosting

Answer 6

Also known as “onion-skinning”, is a display mode which displays a transparent series of images of an animated objects in the current frame. This allow you to easily visualize the movement of an object that can help you improve your timing and fluidity.

Question 7

Gimbal Lock

Answer 7

Lock of the tridimensional rotation system by overlapping two rotation axes.

Question 8

GUI

Answer 8

The Graphical User Interface, also known as GUI (its acronyme) is a computer program that acts as an user interface, using a set of images and graphic objects to represent the information and actions available on the interface. Its main use, is to provide a simple visual environment to allow communication with the operating system of the computer.

Question 9

IK

Answer 9

Or Inverse Kinematic is the technique to determinate the movement of a chain of joints to maintain the final joint located in a specific position.

Question 10

Interpolation

Answer 10

The way in which a computer calculates the path between 2 points. There may be different types of interpolations, like linear, spline, stepped.

Question 11

Layer

Answer 11

Animation or visibility layer.

Question 12

Linear Mode

Answer 12

Curve editor mode in which the interpolation between the key are linear.

Question 13

Motion Path

Answer 13

see Path of action.

Question 14

Offset

Answer 14

Offset of a movement.

Question 15

Picker

Answer 15

See Sinoptic.

Question 16

Pole vector

Answer 16

Position controler of the knees or elbows.

Question 17

Pose to pose

Answer 17

Animation method in which the movements are broken down into a structured series key poses.

Question 18

Preset

Answer 18

User preferences about a software.

Question 19

Rig

Answer 19

Skeleton of a character or object with their drivers.

Question 20

Rotoscopy

Answer 20

Technique that involves replacing the frames of an actual filming sequence by drawings “traced” on each frame.

Question 21

Sinoptic

Answer 21

Or Picker is the graphical interface to control and select the character.

Question 22

Spline Mode

Answer 22

Curve editor mode defined by its type of tangents creating a smooth interpolation.

Question 23

Step Mode

Answer 23

Curve editor mode in which you jump from one key to another without any interpolation.

Question 24

Straight ahead

Answer 24

Animation method in which you create a continuous action, step by step.

Question 25

Tangent

Answer 25

Control points to adjust the interpolation between two keys.

Question 26

Timeline

Answer 26

Timeline in frame in which the keys are drawned.

Question 27

Trajectory

Answer 27

Path of the successive positions through which passes a moving body.