Animation Final

In mirroring, what number should be entered in a scale tool to flip and duplicate a group of bones on an axis?

-1

To prevent bones from twisting in the wrong direction, what is the proper angle to set a Pole Angle to for a typical human animation?

-90

Which numpad key/combination of keys will take you to the top view in Blender?

7

What number would you type to make a character do a quarter-turn around an axis using the rotation tool?

90

After selecting all bones, which command resets the bones to their default poses?

Alt + R

The animation application used for this course is:

Blender.

Which of the following shortcuts is used to bring up the list of mesh selection modes?

Ctrl + Tab

A Pitch Book, or Pitch Bible, will never include a synopsis.

False

All codecs in sound editing software are exactly the same.

False

Animation is primarily a visual art, so in many cases, you could turn off the soundtrack and still know what is happening.

False

As technology has advanced, sound designers really haven't had any more tools made available to them in order to make interesting and varied sound for films.

False

In early animation, sound composers used computer generated sounds for things like tiptoeing or an elephant's roar.

False

In weight painting mode, vertex weights are represented by ratios.

False

Objects with fewer polygons fundamentally require the same amount of processing power to animate as models with thousands of polygons; textures are what really affect rendering time.

False

The default interaction mode that is active when you launch Blender is the Texture Paint mode.

False

When starting your script, it is not necessary to describe the scene.

False

What type of artist records sounds in sync with the activity on the screen using props in a studio?

Foley artist

A bone that is not structural, attached to other bones, and is allowed to move independently of the other bones in the rig is probably which of the following?

Guide bone

Which of the following common setups is used to animate legs and arms?

Inverse kinematics

The vertical reference line on a graph is referred to as which of the following?

It depends on the shape of an object.

Who pioneered the use of sound techniques that were developed from those used in radio dramas and meant to simulate real sounds?

Jack Donovan Foley

The process in which key poses in an animation sequence are set at the appropriate points on a timeline is called:

Keyframe Animation

The view mode which allows you to see exact proportions without the distortion of a vanishing point is called which of the following?

Orthographic mode

To have a fire emit sparks, you would most likely use the:

Particles Context

Bones used to keep knees and elbows pointed in the correct direction are called which of the following?

Pole Targets

Which command is used to automatically switch L's to R's in the names of copies bones?

Pose>Flip Names

Under which heading are the parent-child relationships set to in the Bone Constraints context of the properties window?

Relationships heading

Options for color management, choosing a background image, which camera to use for the final render, etc. are found in the:

Scene Context

A copyright is worth money.

True

A long shot will show the character and their surroundings, so full body movement and gestures will be seen.

True

All portfolios should show your best work: what you are most proud of, projects that look great, and types of work that you want to do more of.

True

Bones are basically created by choosing a starting point and then "pulling" away from it to create a single bone.

True

If an object is mirrored, to see only one "side" of it (for example, to isolate a single hand to work on), you can just go to your modifier stack and turn off visibility for the mirror modifier.

True

If you look closely enough at any 3D model, even a very smooth, detailed one (e. g. an eyeball in a modern film), you will see it is actually made up of lots of small, flat faces.

True

In Blender, holding Ctrl while pressing any numpad hotkeys will invert them.

True

In Blender, to create relationships and constraints between bones and alter the position of the armature, you use pose mode.

True

It was not until 1998 that a sound designer working at Skywalker Sound was able to re-sync the music with the film images in the film Dickson Experimental Sound Film.

True

Storyboards give a visual roadmap for key points in the action.

True

The W & Q phoneme causes the most pursed mouth shape, almost closed, with sometimes just a tad of the lower teeth visible.

True

The action of your story should change the main character's personality or feelings about the world.

True

The human brain responds to hearing music in the same way it would when the desire for food or sleep is satisfied.

True

The motion in video game animation must appear natural from any angle since players can rotate inside the world of the game.

True

Turning off backface culling allows you to select polygons from the back of the model at the same time you select them at the front.

True

Usually, the inciting incident is a really exciting action that draws the audience into the story.

True

Where the camera is placed often adds excitement to your film.

True

While it uses another scripting language internally, Blender itself is written in high performance C++ code.

True

Which of the following modes provides the option of painting color onto a model by coloring vertices directly?

Vertex Paint

The interaction mode that allows you to alter how much pull on a vertex the bones have when moving around is known as which of the following?

Weight Paint

Along with allowing the animation to render in real time, gaming animators must make all of the actions of which of the following work together?

a game character

Which of the following does NOT appear on the splash screen you see when you launch Blender?

a list of common keyboard shortcut commands

What type of short video can introduce a product, show how to use the product, or explain how the product solves a potential customer's problem?

a short advertising or informational video

What do we call a short-story prose version of a script, written in the present tense?

a treatment

What can you use to make your own pop shield?

a wire coat hanger and a stocking or other thin fabric

A technique for figuring out how objects will react to the lighting of a scene is called:

ambient occlusion

Which of the following is the best way to show the total package of skills you possess in your portfolio?

animation sequences

What is considered intellectual property?

any original work, be it writing, artwork, animation, software, characters, or inventions

What is an example of a supervisory job in the field of animation?

assistant director

What is ambience?

background noise of the room

Why is an elevator pitch called an elevator pitch?

because you need to be ready to give a quick synopsis of your project, and it should take only as long as if you were on a quick elevator ride with an executive

Which of the following animation types is keyframe animation LEAST suited for?

dancing

What do we call actions you can perform in a graphics or audio editing program that overwrite the parameters of your original file, changing them permanently?

destructive

The words that the characters say to each other is called what?

dialogue

When a film image comes up from black, it is called a:

fade in

What are the basic genres in films?

fiction and documentary

To isolate movement along a single axis in Blender, you:

first type the letter of the axis (x, y, or z key), then drag

What type of animators work with law enforcement, insurance, and legal professionals to reconstruct the actions of a crime or an accident?

forensic animators

Which of the following should you not do when working with actors in sound production?

give actors a line reading—reading it how you want them to read it back—and expecting them to simply imitate you

Which of the following is the brush tool that allows you to click and drag vertices around as though you were nudging paint on a canvas with a brush?

grab brush

Which of the following refers to where a film scene takes place?

location

If the character's body is in the frame from the waist up, so body language is visible, what kind of camera shot is this?

mid shot

To drag your view around an orbit in Blender, you:

middle click and drag

Animation that involves a human actor wearing a specially designed suit with markers on it to detect movements in key areas of the body is:

motion-capture animation

What type of editing can be described as computer editing that allows dragging and dropping clips of video or audio with transitions and effects being easy to apply?

non-linear editing

What is the name for the flat faces that make up the shape of a 3D model?

polygons

What type of mic has a very directional pickup pattern that records just what it is pointed at, filtering out all background noise and is sometimes known as a shotgun mic?

preferential mic

Which of the following is the fastest way to switch between active mode and edit mode in Blender?

press the Tab key

What can taking an art class help teach you that is applicable to animation?

proportion, perspective, image composition, and color

The process of creating a virtual skeleton for a 3D character model is called:

rigging

To make rigging, skinning, animation, and the resultant deformation work more fluently when blocking out a human character model, you should twist the vertices in the arm so that the hand is mostly pointing in which direction?

somewhat downward

What three items must all be recorded to go on the soundtrack?

sound effects, voices, and music

What is an example of something that is not considered plagiarism?

summarizing someone else's work or using their images and properly crediting them in your work or publication

What is important to constantly check when creating bones?

that bones are positioned properly on the third axis

What represents a weighting of 0 in the weight painting mode?

the color blue

What is the climax of a film?

the moment of highest tension in the film; this happens in Act 3

Automatic Weights are assigned based on which of the following?

the size of the bone

If you were designing a butterfly, which of the following parts would likely consist of the fewest polygons?

the wings

What is each character's unique way of speaking based on?

their specific characteristics and how they feel emotionally

What can animators use animation to model in/for the military?

tools of warfare

Game animation may not be as high-quality as entertainment animation, but it must have what?

true 3D reality

Rather than animate an entire foot (with toes, etc.) an animator is most likely to do which of the following?

use a boot or ordinary shoe instead