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Edweard Muybridge published two books; Animal Locomtion, 1889, and The Human Figure in Motion, 1901.
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| Who created the first animated feature? |
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| What was the first animated film? |
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| "The Humerous Phases of Funny Faces" |
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| What are the 3 way of animation? |
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| Cel Animation, Stop-Motion/Claymation, Rotoscope |
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| What is the importance of The Last Starfighter? |
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| The first film to offer photorealist animated images, using a Cray supercomputer. |
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| What was the first full length computer animated film? |
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| A flat image that wraps around a sculpture to add more dimension. It make it more realistic. |
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| The process in creating the sculptures in the computer or assembling the 3D objects. |
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| Converting 3D data to 2D data (is the most time consuming) |
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| What was the first length animated film with synchronized sound? |
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| What are the 2 ways to animated? |
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| Keyframing and Motion Capturing |
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| What is the difference between Keyframing and Motion Capturing? |
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| Keyframing-Artist sets key positions on model and the computer creates the movement between them. Motion Capture-Recording a human performance. |
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| The first analog video computer. Produced effects for 1970's TV and film. |
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| The standard for audio (Compact Disc Digital Audio). The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony. |
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| The DVD standard for the video entertainment industry. DVD can store up to 17.9 GB of data. |
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| A set of standards for compress for bitmapped images. |
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| What are the types of image? |
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| Bitmapped Roster and Object Oriented. |
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| Bitmapped is a type of ...? |
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| The analog-to-digital converter analyzes the incoming audio voltage signal at a very fast rate. |
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| What is Authoring Software? |
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| Ability to make DVD, Webpages, etc. without entering codes. |
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| What are the 2 types of uncompressed audio? |
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| At this time what was Thomas Edison know for? |
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| Created the Phonograph. Columbia Records. |
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| Developed the 1st Multi-Track tape recorder with Ampex. 1st Multi-track release recorded on homemade disc system. |
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| What are the company's that created Compact Disc? |
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| What is the Production Process? |
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| What is the difference between Balanced and Unbalanced cables? |
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| XLR, 4.4mm, & ¼” TRS=Balanced ¼” TS (tip sleeve), RCA & MIDI. |
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| What are the 3 types of Motion Capture? |
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| 1. Optical 2. Magnetic 3. Electro Magnetic |
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| The process used to measure the amplitude of the audio voltage waveform in a digital recording. |
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| Drawing that is pretty much like tracing over real images and footage. |
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| Ended the sponsorship of the government funded internet use in 1995. The limitation of commercial use ends. |
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| Preparing mix masters for various format releases. |
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| 1st movie that used CGI in the environment with the actors. |
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| First to record to the phonograph (invented by Thomas Edison, used 78rpm flat disc.) |
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| What are the 2 things that animation needs...? |
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| 1. Illusion of Motion 2. Physical presence. |
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| Blending all the sounds together. |
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| Handles business aspect, including payroll |
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| 1,440 fps (frames per second) |
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| The level between maximum and nominal level. |
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| 1st to use tape for productions... which became the standards by the 1950s. |
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| What is Authoring Software? |
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| Software that allows for synchronizing elements of a multimedia project without knowing code. (iWeb) |
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| Manages the studio and the clients |
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wav: Microsoft
AIFF: Apple (BOTH of these contain raw audio data) |
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AVI (audio video interleave)
ASF (advanced system format)
MOV (quicktime movie format)
VOB (Video Object)
MP4 |
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| The 1st movie to use computer generated imagery (CGI) |
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| What are particle Effects? |
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| Points in a 3D space that are animated based on physics. |
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| Where start and end positions are created... The computer creates the movement between the two points by filling in the spaces. |
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| Responsible for the technical aspects |
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| Who is Gertie the Dinosaur? |
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| by Windsor McKay, this was the first animated character with human personality traits. |
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| The central nervous system in the studio |
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| Allows for effects to run through the console |
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| Detailed sculptures used in the pre-production process of animation. |
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| Recording a ahuman performance to use as part of the animation process. |
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| What is Unbalanced Wiring? |
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| What is Object Oriented / Vector? |
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Drawn using math formulas to resize the image without losing any of its original quality..
EPS, CAD, and Animation software. |
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| Interactivity... Scalable for internet and broadcast .. Support multi-channel |
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books differ by letter
(DVD Video is book B) DVD can hold up to 17.9GB |
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| Global control over I/Os, has a talk back system (mic to booth) has the master fader. |
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| What is a multi-plane camera? |
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| Invented by Disney that gave depth to animations. |
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| Handles business arrangements for artist during sessions. |
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| I/O (input-output module) |
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| Set levels for MTR and receives signals from MTR |
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| Common standards for encoding/decoding VIDEO? |
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MPEG
WMV (Windows Media Video)
Tru-Motion VP7 (Flash) |
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| CD (780nM) and DVD (650nM) |
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Track recorded from center to outside of disc.
When laser changes=1
When laser does NOT change=0 |
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| 1st movie to use 3D graphics. |
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| What is Computer Rotoscoping? |
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| Cuts the computer generated character into the scene to make it look like they're there, trims the character to make him fit dimensionally, frame by frame. |
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| 1st movie with photorealistic CGI |
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| locate and develop artist. Kind of like a talent scout. |
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| 4 University computers connect to the internet in southwest US in 1969 and it was government funded. |
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| Used to control movie release dates across different continents. |
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| Cartoon like Scooby-doo with a still background and moving character in the forefront. |
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| created in 1935 German.. it used magnetic tape to record. The magnetic tape was just iron oxide particles "glued" to tape |
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| Lines that digitally trace in CPU using shapes |
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distinguished by different colored 'books'
CD-DA is RED book
Original stand CD held 650 MB by todays CDs hold up to 700MB |
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| I minute of VIDEO (30fps) |
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| The levels between nominal level and noise floor level |
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| Common Standards for encoding/decoding AUDIO |
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| 1st computer animated cartoon movie. |
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| Breaks sound into 576 frequency components. Up to 48kHz sample rate in stereo. |
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| 1st movies to use realistic computer generated actors. |
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| Facility Staff... Responsible for making a session run smoothly aka the 2nd Engineer. |
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| Used 3 conductors, eliminates interference, used professionally. |
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| The most critical part of a project that ensures everything is set up and ready for use. |
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| Used for HTML sites and has ONE way communication. |
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| Handles interlaced and progressive encoding and was designed for NTSC (480i) |
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| What is Perpetual Noise Shaping? |
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| Works on the principles that we hear certain frequencies better than others... when sound occur, we mostly perceive the louder sound. |
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| Amount of data per second. |
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| Responsible for creative process |
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Sample rate= 44.1 khz
Quantization= 16 bit |
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| 1st movie where stop-motions animators worked with computer animators. |
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| Brought the magnetophone to the USA |
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| Recording the core elements of a song |
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| Layering separate rendered images of computer graphics with live action. |
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| The foundation of most LANs |
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| A network of computer used simultaneously to render. |
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| Designed for 352 X 240 resolutions @ 30fps used in progressive video. |
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| Compresses data for either hardware or software |
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| Adding new material to something that was already recorded |
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| What is Stop-Motion/Claymation? |
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| examples include "The Nightmare before Christmas" |
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| Sync Head, Repro head, Erase head |
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| Allows to playback and record simultaneously |
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| Used for mixing, allows playback tracks with highest quality possible. |
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| Will record 150,000 Hz on every track |
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