Modern Techniques and Processes Questions and Answers

Answer: D

A levigator is a tool used in lithography to grind and level the stone (iv); a squeeze, that is the squeegee, is used in silk screen printing to push the ink through the screen (iii); a bunin, the burin, is the cutting tool of wood cut and engraving (i); and a rulet, the roulette, is a tool of intaglio printmaking (ii). So the match is a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii, option D. The answer is option D. Each of these tools belongs to one printmaking process, so the match is made by process: lithography, silk screen, wood cut and intaglio.

Answer: D

The key gives a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii. Iron perchloride (ferric chloride) is a mordant used in etching (iii), the snake stone is a fine stone used with water to smooth the lithographic stone before a drawing is made on it (iv), and French chalk is used in wiping (ii). Tallow with foreground (i) could not be confirmed from a source. The key is option D, and the other options pair the items differently. Ferric chloride bites copper and is used in etching plates, so it is matched with etching, and the French chalk is used to dust the plate or stone when wiping.

Answer: A

Adobe Photoshop is the graphic image editing program introduced by Adobe, used for editing and retouching raster images. Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics program, Adobe Premiere Pro is video editing software and Adobe After Effects is used for motion graphics and visual effects. Only Photoshop is the image editing program for photographs and bitmap pictures. Photoshop works with pixels, so images lose sharpness when enlarged, while the vector tools of Illustrator do not.

Answer: C

The subtractive colour model is the CMYK colour model.

Cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks subtract (absorb) parts of the light that falls on the paper, which is why printing uses CMYK.

RGB is additive, the index colour model uses a palette of fixed colours, and HSL describes hue, saturation and lightness, so they are not subtractive.

In a computer display, the RGB model mixes light and is additive, while in printing the CMYK model mixes inks and is subtractive, and black (K) is added to give a deep black.

Answer: D

The device is the half tone.

A halftone breaks a continuous tone picture into patterns of dots of different sizes, so that it can be printed with one ink.

A quarter tone is not a printing term, a criss-cross screen is only the tool used for the process, and a mezzotint gives tone by rocking the plate.

Newspapers still use halftone screens to print photographs, and the number of lines to the inch decides how fine the picture looks.

Answer: B

The film was Gone with the Wind.

Production designer William Cameron Menzies prepared a complete storyboard for the 1939 film, which is said to be the first live action film planned entirely in this way.

Fantasmagorie (1908) and Steamboat Willie (1928) are animated films, and Three Little Pigs is an animated short, so they are not live action.

The storyboard was also used by Disney artists from the early 1930s for animated shorts such as The Three Little Pigs, which then spread to live action film.

Answer: A

Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of illustrative images displayed in sequence.

The storyboard was developed in the Disney studio in the 1930s to plan a film shot by shot with a series of drawings placed in order.

A motion picture, animation and interactive media are products that a storyboard helps to plan, not the storyboard itself.

Today storyboards are used in film, advertising, television and the design of websites and applications, wherever a sequence has to be planned.

Answer: B

Vectorization is the conversion of raster graphics into vector graphics.

A raster image is made of pixels. Vectorizing traces its shapes as paths defined by points and curves, which can be scaled without loss of quality.

Converting RGB into CMYK is a colour change, converting tone to halftone is a printing step, and redrawing by hand into digital form is only a general description.

Vector graphics store shapes as mathematical paths and are used for logos and type, and software such as Illustrator and CorelDRAW has an auto trace tool for this conversion.

Answer: D

In-betweens are the drawings between key frames.

The senior animator draws the key frames, which fix the main poses, and the assistants draw the in-between frames to create the illusion of smooth motion.

The numbers of frames named in the other options are not what the in-betweens lie between.

The term applies to hand-drawn and computer animation alike, and the number of in-betweens decides how fast or slow a movement looks.

Answer: A

(A) is correct and (R) is incorrect, so the answer is option A.

The computer is a tool, like a camera, and works best in the hands of a designer who knows the whole graphic process. The reason says that thinking and having an idea is no longer important, which does not follow, because the tool does not supply ideas.

The options accepting the reason are wrong.

A designer must still know typography, layout and the printing process, and the computer only makes the work quicker.