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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.






2. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






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






4. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.






5. Scenery hung at back of stage






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






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.






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






9. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)






10. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.






11. Pre-developed movie clips that can quickly add functionality to a movie by dragging and dropping them from the Components panel to the stage. Commonly used for creating forms with boxes for entering user data.






12. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.






13. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -






14. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.






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






16. 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






17. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.






18. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files






19. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.






20. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)






21. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)






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






23. The name of a work of art or movie etc.






24. 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






25. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.






26. Graphic based on pixels






27. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.






28. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






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






30. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?






31. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.






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






33. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.






34. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations






35. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.






36. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations






37. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page






38. Items - such as drawings and text - that are placed on the Stage and can be edited and manipulated. In ActionScript 3.0 - an instance of a class that inherits the attributes and functionality of a class.






39. 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.






40. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.






41. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)






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






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






44. 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.






45. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.






46. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.






47. 1 second (default)






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






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






50. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones