Animation I: Final Exam Study Guide 2026

What tool in the Advanced Animation toolbar would you use if you wanted to position an object without affecting its size or angle?

The Translate tool

What must you enable in order to hear the sound when you play back your animation?

The Enable Sound button in the Playback toolbar

What happens to your export if you do not add a Colour-Card or a background to your scene?

The export will have a black background

What effect node would you use if you want to make something look like it is emitting a soft light?

Glow node.

Which of the following drawing guides does not have a vanishing point?

Isometric Perspective

With regards to colour, what does 'alpha' refer to?

The transparency of the colour.

Which of the following describes the idea that our eyes can fill in apparent motion between moving pictures?

Persistence of Vision

What does the onion skin allow you to see?

... the artwork on other frames.

What are the 3 main animation techniques?

Traditional Animation, Digital Animation, Paperless animation

The default frame rate in Harmony is?

24

True or false: The Brush Tool only works on bitmap layers.

False

Which phase is NOT part of the Cut-Out Animation Pipeline?

Scan

The three Main animation production phases are...

Pre-Production, Production, & Post-Production

When importing an image, what file type allows you to import multiple layers?

PSD

When importing a bitmap image, what option would you choose to import a drawing into a vector layer where you can edit the image using the drawing tools?

Create Single Layer Named

How many principals of animation are there?

12

Identify the Animation Principle: Preparation for an action.

Anticipation

Identify the Animation Principal: Involuntary actions that follow/drag after the primary action.

Follow Through and Overlapping Action

You can use the ink tool to...

Repaint sections of lines.

Identify the Animation Principle: The path all organic elements follow when moving.

Arcs

What is the shortcut key to the Rotate Tool

e

What is the shortcut key to "keyframe movement" in Autodesk Maya?

Shift + W

What is this?

Z-axis

What is this?

Y- Axis

What is this?

X- Axis

What is the definition of interpolation in animation?

is inbetweening, or filling in frames between the key frames. It typically calculates the in-between frames through use of (usually) piecewise polynomial interpolation to draw images semi-automatically.

What is the shortcut key to "keyframe rotation" in Autodesk Maya?

Shift + E

What is the shortcut key for the Translate Tool

w

What is the shortcut key to the Scale Tool?

r

What is the shortcut key to "keyframe scale" in Autodesk Maya?

Shift + R