Character Animation Character Animation 3

Question 1

What is 'stepped' interpolation mode used for in a 3D animation workflow?

Accepted Answer

To hold poses without any interpolation, for blocking or pose-to-pose staging

Answer

Stepped mode holds each value constant until the next keyframe, letting animators block out key poses cleanly before adding in-betweens.

Question 2

Which animation technique involves physically manipulating a puppet or physical object frame by frame?

Accepted Answer

Stop-motion animation

Answer

Stop-motion animation captures real physical objects moved incrementally between individually photographed frames.

Question 3

In 3D character rigs, what is the difference between FK (Forward Kinematics) and IK (Inverse Kinematics)?

Accepted Answer

FK rotates joints from parent to child; IK positions the end effector and solves the chain backward

Answer

FK drives joints in a parent-to-child chain using rotations, while IK lets you place the end effector (hand/foot) and automatically calculates the joint chain.

Question 4

What is 'lip-sync' in character animation?

Accepted Answer

Matching mouth shapes (phonemes/visemes) to spoken dialogue

Answer

Lip-sync is the process of animating a character's mouth shapes to correspond with dialogue sounds, using phoneme-based mouth shapes called visemes.

Question 5

Which of the 12 principles of animation refers to making action more convincing by exaggerating it beyond reality?

Accepted Answer

Exaggeration

Answer

The Exaggeration principle states that realistic motion should be pushed beyond naturalism to read clearly and feel more alive on screen.

Character Animation Practice Test

Character Animation Practice Test

Character Animation Character Animation 3