vocab

Question 1

Animatic

Answer 1

an animated storyboard

Question 2

Dope Sheet

Answer 2

a sheet which is a set of instructions for the camera, it is divided into columns for separate instructions

Question 3

Exposure Sheet

Answer 3

another name for a dope sheet

Question 4

Keys

Answer 4

the important or main drawings of an animation

Question 5

Model Sheet

Answer 5

a plan for a character which shows the character in different poses and adds important details of the character

Question 6

Pre-production

Answer 6

work done once a project is approved, but before the actual animation starts. Includes story development and storyboarding as well as scriptwriting

Question 7

NTSC

Answer 7

(National Tevelvision System Committee) -Sets the standards for broadcast, also used to state the standard rate of 60 FPS for television broadcast

Question 8

Rotoscope

Answer 8

a technique established in the early 1900s where the animator traces outlines of a live video in order to produce animations

Question 9

Storyboard

Answer 9

a set of drawings which tell a viewer the story of a planned film or animation. Told as camera instructions

Question 10

Squash & Stretch

Answer 10

a technique to show exaggeration in a bouncing object or when one object meets another

Question 11

Silhouette

Answer 11

outline of a person or objec

Question 12

Anticipation

Answer 12

preparing the audience for an action ( a golfer taking a swing has to bring the club back first)

Question 13

Overlapping Action

Answer 13

when a character changes direction, a part of the body will continue to go in the direction that it was previously going)

Question 14

Arc

Answer 14

a curved natural path that most things move to

Question 15

Frames per second

Answer 15

how many drawings are exposed in one second ( the more drawings, the finer the animation)