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51 Cards in this Set
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When in the history of the caricature evoked?
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when the drawings match the faces of the media personalities
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What company completes the frames necessary for the Simpsons?
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South Korean Animation Company
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Name the 3 types of single framed cartoons.
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caricatures, editorial and humorous
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What are the oldest known cartoons?
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caricatures
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What do India cartoonists make fun of?
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hindu god krishna
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What did the Greeks make fun of in their cartoons?
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overweight Olympian gods
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What did the Romans make fun of in their cartoons?
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made fun of their religious leaders
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Who is the most famous editorial cartoonist?
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Thomas Nast
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What 2 popular symbols is Thomas Nast responsible for?
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Republican party elephant and santa claus
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Name 3 top editorial artist in the US, and what are they famous for?
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Bill Mauldin, Herbert Block, Paul Conrad - rebelled against the proprogandic use of cartoons
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What is Bill Mauldin famous for?
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Cartoon of Lincoln Mem. grieving the death of President Kennedy
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What did Herb Block invent a become famous for?
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The word McCarthyism | 3 Pulitzer's for his cartoons
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What did Paul Conrad believe?
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8 sec. is the maximum time that anyone should have to understand a cartoons meaning
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What did Rea Irvin establish i his cartoons?
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the style of typography and graphic design that is used to this day
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Example of Egyptian cartoons?
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2 wrestlers fighting
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Example of Greek cartoons?
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fighting warriors or gymnasts
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Example of Japanese cartoons?
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they move when viewers unroll the scroll
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Example of Chinese/Indonesian cartoons?
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silhouette toys
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Example of European cartoons?
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flip books
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What was the first color comic strip?
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Richard Outcult's Hogan's Alley
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What is "yellow journalism"?
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unethical tactic of paying for a story or interview
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What is the most famous cartoon in the world?
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Peanuts
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Who won the first Pulitzer for a cartoon?
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Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury, Vietnam War, Nixon and Watergate cartoons)
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What are comic books sometimes called?
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floppies
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What does Zoetrope mean?
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The Wheel of Life
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What is a zoopraxiscope?
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stop-motion photographs on rotating disc that gave the illusion of movement
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Who was the founder of the American animated film industry?
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Winsor McCay
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Who created the first feature-length animated movie?
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Lotte Reiniger
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What was the first color cartoon?
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Flowers and Trees
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Where did Pixar Studios start from?
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a division in Lucas Films, star wars
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Describe a frame.
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top and bottom boxes or panels that contain narration and story explainations
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Describe Leveling
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elements of reality are removed from the cartoon
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Describe Assimilation
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technique of exaggerating features
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Describe Motion Lines
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hites, vites, dites, agitrons, briffits, waftroms, plewds - (horizontal movement, vertical motions, diagonal movement, wavering motion, puffs of smoke or dirt, odors, sweat beads)
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Why is the letter size and thickness important in cartoons?
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reader become the actor
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Describe some Balloon types
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unbroken line, normal, unemotional speech, perforated line
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Describe action sequences
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close-ups, perspective, framing variations, special lighting, montage techniques, panning, quick-cut editing
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Describe Cell Animation
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hand drawn animation (full, limited, and retro scoping)
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Describe Full animation
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very expensive and time consuming
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Describe Anime
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bright colors, supernatural characters, out of this planet landscapes
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Describe Limited animation
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stylistic and jerky appearance
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Describe retro-scoping
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action movements hand traced frame by frame (A Scanner Darkly)
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Describe Stop-motion animation
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clay models and puppets
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Describe model animation
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models photographed frame by frame
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Describe Puppet animation
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employs wood, rubber and plastic puppet figures
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Describe 2-dimensional CGI
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animation transferred to the computer screen - combines live action with 2-d animation (who framed roger-rabbit)
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Example of 3-d CGI
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pixar movies
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What is performance capture animation?
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also called motion capture or mocap (polar express, beowulf, watchmen)
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What are the 4 main ethical issues for cartoons?
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marketing to children, using few multi-cultural characters, introducing political opinions, showing sexual or violent themes
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What types of people are dominating comic-strips?
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white males
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What can we determine from the types of subjects depicted in cartoons?
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we can determine what the values of the society of that time
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