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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fantasmagorie






2. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.






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






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






5. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.






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






7. Flattens out and elongate slightly






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






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






10. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.






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






12. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






13. 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.






14. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.






15. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






16. 1 second (default)






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






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






19. 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






20. Is mounted above a series of cells - each containing separate elements of the scene.. Because the cells are mounted at varying distances from the camera - if it pans or moves toward them - an effect of motion perspective is created. This was invented






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






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






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






24. A type of data transmission - such as DSL and cable - in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit more information at the same time.






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






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






27. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






28. 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)






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






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






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






32. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.






33. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.






34. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.






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






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






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






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






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






40. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.






41. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.






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






43. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.






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






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






46. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas






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






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






49. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.






50. Brings graphics directly onto the stage