Animation Principles and Copyright Rules

Copyright Restrictions in Film and Assignments

• Video clips in movies: Maximum 3 minutes
• Copyrighted music in movies: Maximum 30 seconds
• Copyrighted text in assignments: Maximum 1000 words per source
• Images from websites in projects: Maximum 15 images from one site; individual sites have a maximum of 5 images.

Animation Principles

• Anticipation: Prepares the audience for an action.
• Squash and Stretch: Creates the illusion of weight and volume in moving objects.
• Exaggeration: A caricature of features, expressions, poses, and actions for emphasis.
• Follow Through: Describes how one action is finished to prepare for the next.

History of Animation

• El Apostol: Thought to be the world's first animated feature film.
• Kinetoscope: Early motion picture machine, unlike later models, it didn't project on a screen and was only viewable by one person at a time.
• Thaumatrope: Victorian-era toy using a spinning disk/card with images on opposite sides, creating an illusion of combined image.

Adobe Animate/Flash

Document Properties

• Allows changing the stage size, frame rate, and background color.

Object & Layer Management

• Reordering layers: Required to rearrange objects' top-to-bottom order on the stage. (True)
• Pen Tool: Used for drawing freeform lines following the cursor. (False; Pen tool is used to create vector paths.)

Tool Descriptions

• Pencil Tool: Used to create shapes with Bézier curves. (False; Pencil tool creates freeform lines.)
• Standard Drawing Mode: Fill and stroke are treated separately. They can be manipulated without affecting each other. (True)
• Object Drawing Mode: Displays a blue bounding box automatically, and fills and strokes cannot be selected individually on the stage.(True)

Interface

• Stage: The primary workspace in Adobe Animate/Flash.
• Paint Bucket Tool: Used to change the fill color of closed shapes.

File Extensions

• Movie test file: Automatically saved in .swf format.