T5 Animation & T7 Digital Video

Question 1

What is ANIMATION?

Answer 1

Illusion of motion created by the consecutive of images of static elements

Question 2

What is the PURPOSE of animation?

Answer 2

Enhance the experience of user to further understand the information

Question 3

What is the USAGE of animation?

Answer 3

Artistic purpose, storytelling, displaying data

Question 4

What are the 3 animation TECHNIQUES?

Answer 4

Cell animation, stop-motion, computer animation

Question 5

What is CELL animation?

Answer 5

series of different graphics are used on each frame

Question 6

What process is involved in cell animation? Explain.

Answer 6

Frames between keyframes are drawn in TWEENING PROCESS, means that the action takes place between keyframes

Question 7

What is the PENCIL TEST in cell animation for?

Answer 7

To check the smoothness, continuity and timing

Question 8

What is STOP-MOTION animation?

Answer 8

Physically manipulating real-world objects and photograph.

Question 9

What are the examples for stop-motion animation?

Answer 9

Puppet animation, clay animation, cutout animation

Question 10

What is COMPUTER animation?

Answer 10

Same logic and procedural as cell animation but the difference is that how much is drawn by the animator and how much is automatically generated by the software. (2D and 3D)

Question 11

What is KINEMATICS?

Answer 11

Study of the movement and motion of structures that have joints, layers, keyframes and tweening.

Question 12

What is the DIFFERENCE between Animation and Digital Video?

Answer 12

• Animation is restricted to ARTIFICIAL image while Digital Video is composed of image ftom NATURAL scenes.
• Animation is CREATED entirely by computer processing while Digital Video is often CAPTURED using analogue and digitised for storage

Question 13

What are the steps for VIDEO CREATION?

Answer 13

• video capture
• video editing
• playback

Question 14

Why does image data and sound data must be stored together in the same file?

Answer 14

Sound data must be synchronised with the visual data to be effective.

Question 15

What are the two TYPES of video editing? State the difference.

Answer 15

LINEAR and NONLINEAR.

LINEAR editing means that the editing of analogue videos is constrained by the sequential of the medias while NONLINEAR means that the digital video can be accessed randomly

Question 16

What is the 2 characteristics of VIDEO EDITING?

Answer 16

• not destructive (as they are stored as instructions and doesn’t alter the original source)
• can integrate special effects

Question 17

What is PLAYBACK?

Answer 17

Stored data will be fetched, processed and converted back to analogue signals for display

Question 18

What are the examples of additional modes in digital video playback?

Answer 18

Fast forward, reverse playback, rewind

Question 19

Difference between ANALOGUE and DIGITAL video.

Answer 19

• Analogue Video has CONTINUOUS SIGNAL while Digital Video has a SEQUENCE of digital image // is discrete.
• Analogue Video is denoted by SINE waves while Digital Video is denoted by SQUARE waves.
• Analogue Video is stored in the form of WAVE SIGNAL while Digital Video is in binary bit

Question 20

What are the ADVANTAGES of Digital Video?

Answer 20

• easily scalable
• stored and transmitted efficiently
• images have greater accuracy to their original source compared to analogue video
• is randomly accessible

Question 21

What are the DISADVANTAGES of Digital Video?

Answer 21

• easily lose detail in white and blacks
• more complex than analogue
• high playback and storage requirements
• special hardware or software is needed for production