Deck 5: Animation

Question 1

Movies on film are typically shot at a shutter rate of __________.

Answer 1

24 fps

Question 2

Explain how to animate a sphere by rolling it across the screen.

Answer 2

You first need to make a number of rotated images of the sphere. Rotate the image in 45-degree increments to create a total of eight images, rotating a full circle of 360 degrees. When each is displayed sequentially at the same location, the sphere spins.

Question 3

What is the process of creating a series of frames between keyframes in animation software?

A) tweening
B) zooming
C) authoring
D) color-cycling

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following file formats is specifically designed to contain animations?

A) psd
B) aiff
C) xls
D) gif

Question 5

Which of the following is an open-source standard for passing 3-D animation files among applications?

A) Flash
B) Maya
C) COLLADA
D) Gif

Question 6

Which of the following is the act of making something come alive.

A) Animation
B) Zooming
C) Tweening
D) Morphing

Question 7

The more key points, the smoother the transition applies to which popular effect?

A) kerning
B) fading
C) tracking
D) morphing

Question 8

__________ animation is a technique in which a series of progressively different graphics is used on each frame of movie film.

A) Cel
B) RGB
C) Phi
D) Beta

Question 9

Which file format does HTML5 use to deliver browser animation?

A) avi
B) mpg
C) wav
D) svg

Question 10

To make a bouncing ball animation seem natural, you must consider which of the following?

A) perspective adjustment
B) acceleration effects of gravity
C) morphing parameters
D) perpendicular line of sight

Question 11

Animation is possible because of a biological phenomenon known as __________.

Question 12

A psychological phenomenon in which the human mind needs to conceptually complete a perceived action is called:

A) chi
B) alpha
C) phi
D) delta

Question 13

__________, available in high-end 3-D, is the process by which you link objects such as hands to arms and define their relationships and limits.

Question 14

What is the main difference between 2-D and 3-D animation?

A) the number of frames per second
B) the number of axes on which the motion occurs
C) the number of keyframes
D) the number of tweens

Question 15

To create an animation with a realistic rolling effect, calculate the __________ of the ball to specify the movement.

Question 16

The word __________, in computer animation terminology, usually means special methods for computing color values, providing edge detection, and layering so that images can blend or otherwise mix their colors to produce special transparencies, inversions, and effects.