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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Anti-aliasing
Appeal
Casting
Zoopraxiscope
2. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Import to stage
Ease In and Ease out
Property
Credits
3. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Ease In and Ease out
Object
Tripod
Squash and Stretch
4. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Trace
Audience
Data type
Decrement Action
5. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Art Clokey
Exaggeration
Broadband
HTML alignment
6. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Animation
J. Stuart Blackton
Stream sound
Actions panel
7. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Instance
Tween(ing)
Edit
Graphic Symbols
8. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Publish
String variable
Vector graphic
Animated graphic symbol
9. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Parent-child relationship
Property
Emile Reynaud
10. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Increment Action
Expressions
Winsor McCay
Timeline
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.
AddChild
Rotoscoping
Persistance of Vision
Components
12. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Loader Component
Check syntax
Import to stage
13. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Tripod
DSL
Methods
14. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Thaumatrope
Movie clip symbol
Multiplane Camera
Appeal
15. 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.
Flash Lite
Praxinoscope
Number variable
Limited Animation
16. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Zoetrope
Components
DSL
Tripod
17. 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.
Graphic Symbols
Peter Jackson
Hanna -Barbera
Event sounds
18. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Loop
Script
Event sounds
19. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Bandwidth Profiler
Walt Disney
Rotoscoping
Import
20. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Broadband
Publish
Limited Animation
Frame
21. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Timeline
Anti-aliasing
Timeline
Flipbook
22. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Object
Credits
Peg Bar
Norman Mclaren
23. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Frame
Props
String variable
Zoopraxiscope
24. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Appeal
Expressions
Walt Disney
Event Listener
25. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Import to library
Classes
Title
Publish
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.
Button symbol
Schlesinger Studios
Device Central
Limited Animation
27. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Dynamic text field
Methods
Import
Praxinoscope
28. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
T1
Timing
Anti-aliasing
Magic Lantern
29. 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
Otto Messmer
Object
Emile Reynaud
Parent-child relationship
30. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
AddChild
Pixar
Number variable
Onion Skin
31. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Tripod
Storyboard
Peg Bar
Conditional Actions
32. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Dynamic text field
Theatre Optique
Ray Harryhausen
Bray Studios
33. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Rotoscoping
Trace
Magic Lantern
Multiplane Camera
34. An image calculated and stored according to mathematical formulas rather than pixels - resulting in a smaller file size and the ability to resize the image without a loss in quality.
Vector graphic
Code snippets
Function
Flipbook
35. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Claymation
Bandwidth Profiler
Bray Studios
Animated graphic symbol
36. Terminator 2
Emile Cohl
Crossbar
Loop
James Cameron
37. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Timeline
Title
Stop-Motion
Winsor McCay
38. Fantasmagorie
Emile Cohl
Flipbook
Keyframe
Script
39. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Aardman Studios
Cel
Publish
Increment Action
40. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Crossbar
Library panel
Tim Burton
Art Clokey
41. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Import to library
Button symbol
Animation
Storyboard
42. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Theatre Optique
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Claymation
Multiplane Camera
43. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Device Central
Script
Otto Messmer
DSL
44. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Chuck Jones
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Emile Reynaud
45. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Appeal
Peter Jackson
Phenakistoscope
Broadband
46. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Rotoscoping
24 frames
Phenakistoscope
Magic Lantern
47. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
J. Stuart Blackton
UPA
Stream sound
Instance
48. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Flash Lite
UPA
Frame
Dynamic text field
49. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Event Listener
Data type
Break apart
Onion Skin
50. 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.
Object
Onion Skin
String variable
Zoetrope