3D Graphics and Animation

The quad is a polygon made up of n edges.

An active object is affected by forces and by collisions with other Active Rigid Bodies.

A lattice deformer can be deformed as a deformable object.

Once the keys are set for the ball’s positions, the animation is complete; no further refinements need to be done

The location of a directional light makes a difference in how it illuminates the scene.

Clicking on the break tangents button allows you to adjust the handles for a key independently

UVs that overlap in the UV space can still have their own unique textures.

UVs are like verts, except that UVs occupy a 2D space rather than a 3D one.

Another name for a polygon is a face.

A rim light is like a light bulb; light emanates in all directions.

When rendering in Maya, you always want to render to a movie file.

The amount of influence a joint has over a vertex will determine how much that vert moves when the joint is rotated.

By waiting your joints, the add operation adds the current value to the vertex, regardless of the current value of that vert.

Applying a pole vector constraint to the ankle IK handle allows you to rotate the knee.

Zbrush and Mudbox can work with models containing ngons

Most animation you do in Maya will involve some form of setting keys.

An active object is affected by forces and by collisions with other Active Rigid Bodies.

A lattice deformer can't be deformed as a deformable object.

A blend shape is one type of deformer.

It doesn’t matter in what order deformers are applied to a model.

After you’ve created your blend shapes you can still add or delete geometry on your main mode

Any vert that is moved on a blend shape becomes part of that blend.

Pre and Post Infinity

Post mode

Interactive Mode

Import a Python module that allows you to use any Maya command available to Python.

Command creates a new polygonal cube.

Command associates color(rgb and alpha) with vertices on polygonal objects. When used with the query flag, it returns the color associated with the specified components.

In a skeleton setup, the importance is the places of ______________

Which of the following do you use to edit a smooth bind?

What are the three categories of lights in a three point system?

Which light’s job is to help reduce stark shadows?

Which light can be thought of like the sun?

Taking individually rendered scene elements and combining them into a finished image is known as

The constrains:

This process of preparing character controls is called

To create the blend shape interface, select your blend shapes and base by:

The only way to render paint effects using MentalRay is to:

After effects can be used for:

To attach a character model to a skeleton you need to apply the following command Bind Skin>:

One of the final steps in modeling is to add additional geometry in areas of the model where ____________ will occur

To make sure there are no stray verts in your model, you perform a ______________.

Once you move your model, you should zero out the move and rotate values by selecting ____________.

___________ is a technique for assigning a picture to the surface of a model.

A set of UVs for part of the model is known as a _________.

To change the size of the UV projections, press r to select the _________.

Blend shapes are frequently used for creating ___________.

Add additional ____________ around things like eye sockets and lips before creating blend shapes.

In general, blend shapes work best when they’re not trying to __________.

Before you start creating blend shapes, you should delete______________

Joints function by influencing _____________ on the surface of the model.

The best view to create a joint chain in is the one that provides the ______ about the geometry.

Before you start creating joints, you should turn on ____________.

Skin weights refer to the _______________ a joint has on a given vertex.

Every vertex on the surface of the model must have a total influence of ___________.

You use the ____________ tool to adjust the joint weights on vertices.

You use the __________ window to modify a skin point’s weight.

______________ creates controls for making rotating joints easier and speeding up animation workflow

___________ describes how the joints in a model rotate, without worrying about what drives the rotation.

The ______________ solver will allow you to rotate the joint chain.

Once you create your control handle, you should _______________ to zero out the move information.

A(n) _______________ constrains the position of one object to the position of another object.

A(n) ___________ constrains the rotations of one object to the rotation of another object.

A(n) ____________ keeps an object pointing to another object.

A(n) ____________ uses keyframes and relationships between attributes of objects to automate some animations and is very useful in rigging.

The curvature of an animation curve at the point of a keyframe is called ____________.

Resetting an object’s transformations all back to 0 is called ____________.

____________ is an animation term used to convey the weight of an object as it animates.

Animating an object along a curve is called _______________.

___________ Involves recording attribute values as keys for one or more objects at particular points in time.

___________ allow you to make parts of character animation in different files and mix them together in another file (Blended Clips).

One common way to animate a shot is to use a technique called __________.

_______________ is the number of digits in the frame number, and should always match the number of digits in the last frame of your scene.

Blend shapes are frequently used for creating ________________.

Joints function by influencing ____________ on the surface of the model.

To set a keyframe, you press the:

When working on your scene, you should turn on the _____ so you can see what the camera will see.

When modeling, you place your reference images in the:

Starting your model with a cube is a technique called:

The tool that inserts edges at points you specify is the: