Certified Animation Professional (CAP) Practice Test

Which of the following can be described as a comic strip?

1. Animation platform

2. Animation scripting

3. Character looping

4. Storyboarding

The correct answer is: Storyboarding

A comic strip is a sequence of images or illustrations arranged in panels that tell a story or convey humor, often accompanied by text in the form of dialogue or captions. Storyboarding serves a similar purpose in the context of animation and filmmaking. It involves creating a visual representation of scenes in a narrative format prior to the production process. Each frame in a storyboard can be seen as an individual panel in a comic strip, where the progression of the story is planned and visualized. Storyboarding allows visuals to be organized sequentially, much like the panels of a comic strip, helping animators and directors visualize the flow of the narrative, timing, and composition. This correlation makes storyboarding a fitting answer, as both comic strips and storyboards share the intent of visually telling a story through a sequence of drawings. Other options do not represent the concept of a comic strip. Animation platforms refer to the software or tools used to create animations, scripting pertains to writing the dialogue and actions for animation, and character looping involves the animation of characters repeating actions. These do not align with the narrative and visual structuring inherent in comic strips.