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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






2. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






3. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story






4. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.






5. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.






6. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie






7. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood






8. Graphic based on pixels






9. Scenery hung at back of stage






10. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






11. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.






12. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts






13. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.






14. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.






15. A sound that is tied to the Timeline. No matter its length - a streaming sound stops at the end of the movie. Can start palying as they download.






16. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine






17. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.






18. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document






19. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.






20. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird






21. To bring information into a computer or computer program






22. Fantasmagorie






23. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.






24. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.






25. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.






26. An animation process that does not redraw entire frames of animation but instead variably reuses common parts between frames. This was a quick and cheap way to produce animations for Saturday morning cartoons.






27. It is the most crucial elements physical and theatrical. actual motions required to perform an action - refers to the pauses and the emphases added to make it dramatic






28. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel






29. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.






30. The process of changing one data type to another.






31. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






32. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.






33. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.






34. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.






35. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera






36. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie






37. The process of breaking apart text to place each character in a separate text block. The process of separating groups - instances - and bitmaps into ungrouped - of editable elements.






38. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






39. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






40. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.






41. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps






42. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.






43. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.






44. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.






45. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






46. A description of the hierarchical relationship that develops between nested symbols - especially nested movie clip symbols. When you insert a movie clip inside another movie clip - the inserted clip is considered the child and the original clip is th






47. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.






48. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.






49. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.






50. Flattens out and elongate slightly