Deck 3: Creating Animations Using Adobe Photoshop

Question 1

You can use the Marquee tools and the Lasso tools interchangeably as they have the same effect when selecting an object.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

You use the Quick Selection tool to create a selection with a round brush that automatically finds a distinct edge in an image.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

When you work in shape layers mode, a shape is created on a separate layer.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

When working in paths mode, you create a work path that is created on a new layer.

Question 5

You select the size and style of a brush tip in the Brush tool options panel.

Question 6

When you have created a document in Photoshop, the Stage, which is the white area in the center of the workspace, appears.

Question 7

After you create a basic walk cycle, you can make variations to create a more interesting walk such as by adding a bounce, a slouch, or a shuffle to your character's steps.

Question 8

If you plan to animate several objects, you should create each object on its own layer.

Question 9

You should decide on the final output before beginning your project.

Question 10

Phenakistoscope animation used a mirror and a disk with equally spaced slits so that, as the user spun the disk, the image appeared to be a single moving image .

Question 11

The drop zone appears just before you release the mouse button to drop a panel into a new location.

Question 12

You can create a flip-style animation on a computer using layers.

Question 13

If you plan to save a file as a QuickTime video, you must select the Render Video command using the file Export menu on the File menu.

Question 14

After you save an animation as a GIF or QuickTime video file, you can continue to edit the file.

Question 15

The volume principle indicates the mass of a bouncing ball should not change when the ball squashes or stretches.

Question 16

Timeline animation terminology comes from the keyframe system developed by Disney Corporation when they created animation by hand.

Question 17

Once you have seen the Maximize Compatibility option, it is a good idea to deactivate it so you don't see this message again.

Question 18

Cel animation or hand-drawn animation was widely used in the 20th century in Disney animated films.

Question 19

If you want to reset your workspace, you can do so by clicking Reset Workspace on the Workspace Switcher menu.

Question 20

When creating a hand-drawn animation, the animator that drew various stages of the animation so that other animators could infer what needed to be drawn in the other frames was known as an inbetweener.

Question 21

The Path Selection tool and the _______________ tool can be used to modify shapes and paths that have been drawn on a single layer.

A) Hand tool
B) Selection tool
C) Direct Selection tool
D) Frame tool

Question 22

One form of animation, known as _______________, used a spinning cylinder on which a series of static pictures had been placed to create the illusion of movement.

A) Phenakistoscope
B) Zoetrope
C) Thaumatrope
D) Stop Motion

Question 23

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. Kate's current assignment is to create an animation for the publisher's website. She is going to animate a boy walking over to a pile of books. She starts drawing the walk cycle by ____.

A) Drawing the right leg, making a copy of it and then flipping it vertically.
B) Draw one leg and then tween the other leg
C) Changing the position of the right and left leg
D) Create many frames with both legs moving in tiny increments each time

Question 24

All of the following are Drawing tools except :

A) Pen tools
B) Shape tools
C) Brush tools
D) Line tools

Question 25

The ____________ path operation adds an additional area to the existing path or shape.

A) New Layer
B) Intersect Shape Areas
C) Combine Shape Areas
D) Subtract Front Shape

Question 26

When animating a bouncing ball, which of the following is affected by gravity and causes a ball to accelerate as the ball moves in a downward path?

A) The arc principle
B) The timing principle
C) The squash and stretch principle
D) The volume principle

Question 27

Drawing a bouncing ball animation in Photoshop uses the drawing principle called _________________ .

A) Tweening
B) Inbetweening
C) Stretching
D) Pose-to-pose

Question 28

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. After drawing the walk cycle images, Kate scans them and brings them into Photoshop and changes the workspace to ____ so that she can change the Animation panel to Frame Animation mode.

A) Motion
B) Essentials
C) Painting
D) Layers

Question 29

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. Kate knows that she can create a basic walk cycle in as few as ___ frames.

A) 8
B) 10
C) 12
D) 6

Question 30

In the figure above, the list of preset categories, as shown in Item 1, are based on a document s

A) Export options
B) Final output
C) Canvas size
D) Resolution

Question 31

Item 2 in the figure above, points to the ____ list arrow.

A) Color Mode
B) RGB
C) Bit
D) Color

Question 32

The number 72 shown in Item 3 in the figure above, indicates that ____.

A) The file is designated for print
B) There are 72 available colors in the RGB Color Mode
C) The width of the document is 72 pixels wide
D) The resolution is 72 pixels per inch

Question 33

If you create a vector image, you will need to use the ____________ mode to work with the image.

A) Shape layers
B) Paths
C) Fill Pixels
D) Masked

Question 34

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. Using the Save for Web command, Kate can save the animation as a QuickTime movie or a(n)

A) Flash Player
B) PNG
C) JPEG
D) Animated GIF

Question 35

All of the following are drawing modes in Photoshop except :

A) Masked mode
B) Shape layers mode
C) Paths mode
D) Fill pixels mode

Question 36

In the figure above, any area of the document that is not filled by new artwork will be filled with ____.

A) White
B) Transparency
C) Red, green or blue
D) Black

Question 37

In the figure above, the image size is ____.

A) 8-bit
B) 5 x 7
C) 531.6K
D) 72 ppi

Question 38

In Photoshop, you use the _______________ option on the Timeline to create flip style animations.

A) Flip mode
B) Video mode
C) Frame mode
D) Animation mode

Question 39

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. When drawing the walk cycle, Kate uses the ____ method.

A) Keyframe
B) Straight Ahead
C) Tween
D) Thaumatrope

Question 40

All of the following are early forms of animation except :

A) Stop Motion
B) Thaumatrope
C) Phenakistoscope
D) Zoetrope

Question 41

When you create a new document in Photoshop, the _______________ opens, which is where you can specify the settings for a Photoshop document.

Question 42

A _______________ is a transparent celluloid sheet that contains a drawing and is then overlapped with other celluloid sheets.

Question 43

When you apply a tween to two frames, the computer determines what should happen between those two frames in a process called _______________ .

Question 44

When you want to create a selection based on a color range, you should use the _______________ tool.

Question 45

A style of hand-drawn animation that is the first animation to use a linear sequence of images is called ______________ .

Question 46

When you draw with the painting tools, the color of the stroke is determined by the _______________ color.

Question 47

The phenomenon known as _______________ makes two images appear to merge into one image.

Question 48

The arrangement of panels in the Photoshop window is known as the _______________ .

Question 49

A _______________ is temporary and you can use it to create a mask, a fill and/or stroke, or to make a selection.

Question 50

Living Pictures or Living Photograph animation is analogous to _______________ animation.