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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Pre-loader
Casting
Animation
Peter Jackson
2. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Timeline
Classes
Crossbar
3. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Instance
Pixar
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Stop-Motion
4. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Limited Animation
Animation
Import
Code snippets
5. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Property
Frame
Button symbol
6. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Classes
Appeal
Flash Lite
Norman Mclaren
7. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
DSL
Loader Component
Tex Avery
Art Clokey
8. Graphic based on pixels
Frame
Walt Disney
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Persistance of Vision
9. Scenery hung at back of stage
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Anticipation
Classes
Background
10. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Ease In and Ease out
Import to stage
Multiplane Camera
Emile Reynaud
11. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Movie clip symbol
Pre-loader
Aardman Studios
Squash and Stretch
12. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Ray Harryhausen
Willis O'Brien
Limited Animation
Movie clip symbol
13. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Audience
Storyboard
Pixilation
Dynamic text field
14. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Credits
Parent-child relationship
Pre-loader
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.
Multiplane Camera
Methods
Stream sound
Ease In and Ease out
16. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Zoetrope
Number variable
Zoopraxiscope
HTML alignment
17. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Flipbook
Stop-Motion
T1
Claymation
18. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Limited Animation
Ease In and Ease out
Edit
Hanna -Barbera
19. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Cel
Magic Lantern
Dynamic text field
Audience
20. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Winsor McCay
Exaggeration
UPA
Crossbar
21. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Import
HTML alignment
Flash Lite
Praxinoscope
22. Fantasmagorie
Limited Animation
Emile Cohl
Decrement Action
Audience
23. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Vector graphic
Function
Onion Skin
Limited Animation
24. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
AddChild
Button symbol
Emile Cohl
Instance
25. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Pixilation
Tween(ing)
Loader Component
Decrement Action
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.
UPA
Zoetrope
Limited Animation
DSL
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
Background
Timing
Pixar
Instance
28. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Keyframe
Claymation
Peg Bar
Animated graphic symbol
29. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Crossbar
Appeal
T1
30. The process of changing one data type to another.
Event sounds
Title
Peter Jackson
Casting
31. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Ray Harryhausen
Rotoscoping
Movie clip symbol
Increment Action
32. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Increment Action
Bray Studios
Stream sound
Expressions
33. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Thaumatrope
Magic Lantern
Device Central
Number variable
34. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Anticipation
Conditional Actions
Code snippets
Magic Lantern
35. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Peter Jackson
Norman Mclaren
Winsor McCay
Tripod
36. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Squash and Stretch
Casting
Persistance of Vision
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.
Flash Lite
Break apart
Expressions
Multiplane Camera
38. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Library panel
Graphic Symbols
Otto Messmer
Event sounds
39. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Increment Action
Rotoscoping
Bandwidth Profiler
Pixilation
40. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Casting
Event Listener
HTML alignment
Import to library
41. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Number variable
Art Clokey
Bray Studios
Flipbook
42. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Timeline
Otto Messmer
Storyboard
Animated graphic symbol
43. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Crossbar
Publish
Timeline
Data type
44. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Conditional Actions
Tween(ing)
Background
Pixilation
45. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Multiplane Camera
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Tim Burton
Code snippets
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
Parent-child relationship
24 frames
String variable
T1
47. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Praxinoscope
Crossbar
Rotoscoping
Flash Lite
48. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Zoetrope
Trace
Decrement Action
Max and Dave Fleischer
49. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Check syntax
Casting
Cue points
Loop
50. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Function
Onion Skin
Squash and Stretch
Willis O'Brien