2D Animation Quiz 1

Question 1

Where the earliest art was found?

Answer 1

El Castillo cave in Cantabria, Spain

Question 2

Some theories hold that ________ may have been a way of communicating with others

Answer 2

cave paintings

Question 3

One of the earliest form of art dated 40 000 years ago

Answer 3

Cave Paintings

Question 4

the Egyptian Pharaoh _______ built a temple to the goddess Isis which had 110 columns. Each column had a painted figure of the goddess in a progressively changed position.

Answer 4

Rameses II

Question 5

Art form after cave paintings

Answer 5

Ancient Egyptian Writings

Question 6

They sometimes decorated pots with figures in successive stages of action. Spinning the pot would create a sense of motion.

Answer 6

Ancient Greeks

Question 7

The first attempt to project drawings onto a wall was made in ______ by ________

Answer 7

1640, Athonasius Kircher

Question 8

The First Projector to project drawings onto a wall was called_____

Answer 8

‘Magic Lantern’

Question 9

In 1824 He discovered the Vital principle “The persistence of vision”

Answer 9

Peter Mark Roget

Question 10

Peter Mark Roget discovered the vital principle called ________

Answer 10

“The persistence of vision”

Question 11

This principle rests on the fact that our eyes temporarily retain the image of anything they’ve just seen.

Answer 11

“The persistence of vision”

Question 12

Roget’s principle gave birth to optical apparatus named __________

Answer 12

Thaumatrope

Question 13

Invented by Dr. Plateau about 1833

Answer 13

The Phenakistoscope

Question 14

One of the most important steps in the evolution of the motion picture

Answer 14

The Phenakistoscope

Question 15

Another illusion toy introduced by William George Horner during 1834

Answer 15

Zoetrope

Question 16

Same principle as Plateau’s Phenakistoscope but instead of discs the pictures and slots are combined in a rotating drum.

Answer 16

Zoetrope

Question 17

Devised by the Frenchman Emile Reynaud in 1877.

Answer 17

Praxinoscope

Question 18

The first flipbook was created in September 1868, when it was presented by __________ by the name ___________.

Answer 18

John Barnes Linnett , kineograph

Question 19

was the first form of animation to employ a linear sequences of images rather than circular like phenakistoscope.

Answer 19

Flipbooks

Question 20

__________ is a collection of combined pictures intended to be flipped over to give the illusion of movement and create an animated sequence from a simple small book or pad.

Answer 20

Flipbook

Question 21

In 1896, a New York newspaper cartoonist
______________ interviewed the Inventor ___________ who was experimenting with moving pictures

Answer 21

James Stuart Blackton , Thomas Edison

Question 22

Blackton did some sketches of Edison and was asked to do some series of drawings. Edison photographed these. This was the first combination of

Answer 22

drawings and photography.

Question 23

In 1906, they publicly released ______ , where Blackton used 3000 flickering drawings to make this first animated picture

Answer 23

released ‘Humurous Phases of Funny Faces’

Question 24

The forefather of the animated cartoon

Answer 24

James Stuart Blackton

Question 25

Who made and showed his first animated film at the Follies Bergeres in Paris, and quoted “don’t do what camera can do – do what a camera can’t do!”

Answer 25

Emile Cohl

Question 26

in 1911, __________ became a big hit when flashed on the screen at Hammerstein’s theatre in New York, with 4000 drawings

Answer 26

Little Nemo in Slumberland

Question 27

___________ drew Gertie the Dinosaur and he performed it live in front of the projected animation

Answer 27

Winsor McCay

Question 28

One of the first interactive styled animation to be performed on stage with the artist.

Answer 28

Gertie the Dinosaur

Question 29

1918, _______ dramatic cartoon depicting the sinking of a ship which needed 25,000 drawings

Answer 29

The Sinking of the Lusitania

Question 30

In 1919, He created an American cartoon "Felix the Cat“ which became popular as Charlie Chaplin

Answer 30

Pat Sullivan

Question 31

Created by Pat Sullivan which became popular as Charlie Chaplin

Answer 31

"Felix the Cat“

Question 32

The first cartoon with synchronized sound (1928)

Answer 32

Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse took off his appearance in Steamboat Willie

Question 33

He animated Jiminey Cricket in Pinocchio and the crows in Dumbo, which started to speak and make noises.

Answer 33

Ward Kimball

Question 34

During this age, theatrical cartoons became an integral part of popular culture. These years are defined by the rise of Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Silly Symphonies), Warner Brothers, HannaBarbera, and Fleischer (Betty Boop, Popeye).

Answer 34

The Golden Age of American Animation

Question 35

1932, Disney leapt forward again with __________ – the first full color cartoon

Answer 35

Flowers and Trees

Question 36

1937, Walt Disney produced the first full length animated feature film called _________

Answer 36

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Question 37

During this era, animation industry began to adapt to the fact that television continued its rise as the entertainment medium of choice for American families

Answer 37

The American Television Era

Question 38

During the American Television Era, studios created many cartoons for TV, using a _______ style

Answer 38

“limited animation”

Question 39

By the mid ‘80s, with help from cable channels such as ________ and ______ cartoons were ubiquitous on TV.

Answer 39

The Disney Channel and Nickolodeon

Question 40

Hanna-Barbera releases _________, the first animated series on prime-time television

Answer 40

The Flintstones

Question 41

Hanna-Barbera releases _________, the first animated series on prime-time television

Answer 41

The Flintstones

Question 42

________ released the first animated series on prime-time television (The Flintstones)

Answer 42

Hanna-Barbera

Question 43

is a spin-off of Huckleberry Hound (another Hanna-Barbera production), debuts on national TV

Answer 43

The Yogi Bear Show (1961)

Question 44

The Yogi Bear Show is a spin-off of _______

Answer 44

Huckleberry Hound

Question 45

DePatie-Freleng Enterprises wins the Academy Award for Best Short Film for ________ of the _____________ series and continues to create shorts for theatrical release.

Answer 45

The Pink Phink, Pink Panther

Question 46

The Simpsons is an American adult animated sitcom created by _______ for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

Answer 46

Matt Groening

Question 47

It is the longest-running American sitcom, the longest-running American animated program, and in 2009 it surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted primetime television series.

Answer 47

The Simpsons

Question 48

First Fully Computer Animated __________

Answer 48

Toy Story

Question 49

The first revolution in animation was the arrival of ___________

Answer 49

digital options with computer generated imagery (CGI)

Question 50

During this era, CGI (computer generated imagery) revolutionized animation

Answer 50

Modern American Era

Question 51

This short film was the first fully CGI-animated film, created by The Graphics Group, the precursor to Pixar.

Answer 51

THE ADVENTURES OF ANDRE & WALLY B

Question 52

______________ produced by Walt Disney Productions and Pixar Animation Studios, became the first full length feature film animated entirely on computers when it was released in 1995.

Answer 52

Toy Story

Question 53

animation films have Graphics Design, Character Design, Computer Aided Animations, Visual Effects, etc. incorporated in the final output. This brings us to the phenomenal work done by _________ , which created an entirely new dimension to computer animation, Avatar.

Answer 53

James Cameron

Question 54

The phenomenal work done by James Cameron, which created an entirely new dimension to computer animation.

Answer 54

Avatar

Question 55

In 2009, _____ was awarded in Oscar for it exceptional ‘Special Effects’ and ‘3D Computer Animations’.

Answer 55

Avatar

Question 56

____ is the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters

Answer 56

Big Hero 6

Question 57

Who said “The only limitation in animation is the person doing it”

Answer 57

Emery Hawkins

Question 58

Who said“If you can dream it, you can do it”

Answer 58

Walt Disney

Question 59

“Animation is not reality. It’s much better!” and “We bring the inanimate to life, we create universes, we are magicians”

Answer 59

Nancy Beiman

Question 60

________ is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2D or 3D artwork or model positions to create an illusion of movement

Answer 60

Animation

Question 61

It involves the appearance of motion caused by displaying still images one after another.

Answer 61

Animation

Question 62

It is the visual art of creating the illusion of motion through the successive display of still images with slightly perceptible changes in the positioning of images.

Answer 62

Animation

Question 63

Ways to Animate

Answer 63

Change in SIZE Change in POSITION Change in ANGLE Change in SPEED Change in COLOR Change of SHAPE

Question 64

Type of animation which was used for most animated films of the 20th century. The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings, which are first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it.

Answer 64

Traditional Animation / Hand-drawn Animation

Question 65

Traditional Animation is also known as

Answer 65

Hand-drawn Animation

Question 66

Example of Traditional Animation is also known as

Answer 66

Flipbook

Question 67

A ___ is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate used as a medium for painting animation frames.

Answer 67

cel

Question 68

is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence.

Answer 68

Stop-motion / Stop Frame

Question 69

Stop motion is also known as ______

Answer 69

Stop Frame

Question 70

This technique is commonly used in clay animation and puppet-based animation.

Answer 70

Stop-motion / Stop Frame

Question 71

Examples of Stop-motion / Stop Frame

Answer 71

Clay animation and Cutouts animation

Question 72

Different Types of Stop-motion Animation

Answer 72

Puppet Clay Model Cutouts Object Sand?

Question 73

encompasses a variety of techniques, the unifying factor being that the animation is created digitally on a computer. This animation takes less time than previous traditional animation.

Answer 73

Computer/Graphic Animation

Question 74

Examples /Graphic Animation

Answer 74

Examples are 2D and 3Danimation

Question 75

______ animation means that the picture is drawn with help of two coordinates of geometry. These are designated as x (horizontal) coordinate and y (vertical) coordinate.

Answer 75

2D Animation

Question 76

2D is flat which means that if a picture is turned to the side, then it becomes a ____.

Answer 76

line

Question 77

_______ is the traditional animation method that has existed since the late 1800s

Answer 77

2D animation

Question 78

_______ includes an extra dimension known as z coordinate which stands for rotation and depth.

Answer 78

3D Animation

Question 79

_________ involves character sketching, character modeling, scene building, texturing, lighting and camera setup, rendering, editing and mixing etc. Other techniques that can be applied are the use of mathematical functions and the use of motion capture.

Answer 79

3D animation