ANIMATION PRE-TEST

What is animation?

• Drawing on paper

• A sequence of images that create the illusion of motion

• A type of video game

• A kind of software

Which software can be used to create animations like cartoons?

• Microsoft Word

• Google Chrome

• Wick Editor

• Photoshop/Photopea

What is a keyframe in animation?

• A frame that defines a starting or ending point of an animation

• A frame without any animation

• A frame with a special effect

• A famous animated character

Which of the following is not a type of animation?

• Stop-motion

• Traditional (Hand-Drawn) Animation

• Rotoscoping

• Photo Manipulation

In Wick Editor, what tool is used to draw and create objects in your animation?

• Text tool

• Shape tool

• Line tool

• Paintbrush tool

What does the timeline in Wick Editor help you with?

• Keeps track of your schedule

• Provides the weather forecast

• Measures the speed of your computer

• Organizes your animation frames

Which term refers to a smooth transition between keyframes in an animation?

• Snap

• Tween

• Jump

• Flipbook

Answer explanation

Tweening in animation is a short for inbetweening, and it's the process of generating images that go between keyframes.

Which file format is commonly used for saving animations?

• .DOCX

• .PDF

• .GIF

• .EXE

• .MP4

Answer explanation

.GIF - Graphic Interchange Format. GIF files also allow images or frames to be combined, creating basic animations.

.MP4 - MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.

What is the frame rate of most standard animations (frames per second)?

• 1 FPS

• 120 FPS

• 24 FPS

• 60 FPS

Answer explanation

FPS (frames per second) by default, FPS 24 is the standard in animation production, but FPS 12 can be a pretty good start for hand-drawn animation.

Which term refers to the process of recording voices for characters in an animation?

• Voice Recording

• Dubbing

• Narration

• Sound Mixing

Answer explanation

Voice-over refers to the spoken text in audiovisual media, whereas dubbing mainly consists of recording new voices for an audiovisual product in post-production and post-release in a different language, and substituting them for the original voices.