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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Title
Art Clokey
Import to stage
Conditional Actions
2. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Audience
T1
Code snippets
Tween(ing)
3. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Emile Reynaud
Object
Keyframe
4. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Tex Avery
J. Stuart Blackton
Classes
Tim Burton
5. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Loader Component
Exaggeration
Art Clokey
Scene
6. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Device Central
Magic Lantern
T1
Squash and Stretch
7. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Actions panel
Background
Code snippets
Persistance of Vision
8. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Ray Harryhausen
Device Central
Event sounds
Check syntax
9. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Event sounds
Dynamic text field
String variable
10. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Decrement Action
Props
Anti-aliasing
11. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Conditional Actions
Increment Action
12. Brings graphics into the library
Norman Mclaren
Import to library
Bandwidth Profiler
Pre-loader
13. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Tripod
Keyframe
Aardman Studios
Timeline
14. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Theatre Optique
Claymation
Animation
15. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Variable
James Cameron
Pre-loader
Increment Action
16. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Button symbol
Tim Burton
DSL
17. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Scene
Script
Loader Component
Expressions
18. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
DSL
Flipbook
Chuck Jones
Actions panel
19. A spinning disc mounted vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look throug
Phenakistoscope
Variable
Zoetrope
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
20. The process of changing one data type to another.
Norman Mclaren
Loop
Casting
Keyframe
21. Fantasmagorie
Emile Cohl
Peter Jackson
Tween(ing)
Willis O'Brien
22. Terminator 2
Emile Reynaud
Flash Lite
James Cameron
Variable
23. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Otto Messmer
Ease In and Ease out
Chuck Jones
Trace
24. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Object
Tim Burton
Scene
Components
25. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Stop-Motion
Pixilation
Chuck Jones
Frame
26. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Script
Aardman Studios
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Edit
27. Created rotoscoping - The Tantalizing Fly (Koko the Clown) - Dizzy Dishes - Minnie the Moocher(Betty Boop) - Popeye (Popeye Meets Sinbad) - Superman series - Gulliver's Travels (first animated feature not from Disney)
Winsor McCay
Max and Dave Fleischer
Code snippets
Event Listener
28. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Pre-loader
Tween(ing)
Schlesinger Studios
Willis O'Brien
29. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Thaumatrope
HTML alignment
Pre-loader
Library panel
30. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Background
Conditional Actions
Methods
Multiplane Camera
31. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
DSL
Tripod
J. Stuart Blackton
Pre-loader
32. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Vector graphic
Otto Messmer
Import
Import
33. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
DSL
Graphic Symbols
Audience
Walt Disney
34. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Theatre Optique
Schlesinger Studios
Code snippets
Storyboard
35. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Otto Messmer
Zoetrope
Tex Avery
Peter Jackson
36. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Methods
Schlesinger Studios
Dynamic text field
37. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Classes
Background
Anti-aliasing
38. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Animated graphic symbol
Nesting
Squash and Stretch
Storyboard
39. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Animated graphic symbol
Flipbook
Background
40. Graphic based on pixels
Loop
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Claymation
AddChild
41. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
DSL
Title
James Cameron
Event sounds
42. A spinning disc mounted vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look throug
Phenakistoscope
Cue points
J. Stuart Blackton
Function
43. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Movie clip symbol
Graphic Symbols
Onion Skin
Zoopraxiscope
44. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Tim Burton
Methods
Script
Pixilation
45. A sound that plays independently of the Timeline. The sound starts in the keyframe to which it is added - but it can continue playing even after a movie ends. Must download completely before it begins playing.
Event sounds
Loop
Function
Praxinoscope
46. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Nesting
James Cameron
Peg Bar
Storyboard
47. 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.
Script
Variable
Stream sound
Squash and Stretch
48. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Pixilation
Walt Disney
Squash and Stretch
49. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Crossbar
Tex Avery
Number variable
50. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Classes
Stream sound
Bandwidth Profiler
Peter Jackson