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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. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Pre-loader
Crossbar
Stop-Motion
2. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
T1
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Schlesinger Studios
Art Clokey
3. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Magic Lantern
Variable
Loader Component
Bandwidth Profiler
4. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Decrement Action
Property
Script
5. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Import to library
HTML alignment
Methods
Edit
6. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Walt Disney
Graphic Symbols
Expressions
Animation
7. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Object
Anti-aliasing
Aardman Studios
Background
8. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Winsor McCay
Library panel
String variable
Check syntax
9. 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
Movie clip symbol
Library panel
Rotoscoping
Parent-child relationship
10. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Pixilation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Max and Dave Fleischer
Praxinoscope
11. 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.
UPA
Loader Component
Device Central
Stream sound
12. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Classes
Property
Variable
Import to library
13. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Casting
Loop
Check syntax
Vector graphic
14. Graphic based on pixels
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Object
Event Listener
Appeal
15. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Hanna -Barbera
Theatre Optique
Data type
Zoopraxiscope
16. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Expressions
Property
Script
Otto Messmer
17. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Library panel
Stop-Motion
Audience
UPA
18. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Check syntax
Theatre Optique
Ray Harryhausen
19. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Scene
Import to stage
Tex Avery
Object
20. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Background
Actions panel
Import
Peter Jackson
21. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Trace
Bandwidth Profiler
Credits
Keyframe
22. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Cue points
DSL
Thaumatrope
Expressions
23. 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)
Praxinoscope
Max and Dave Fleischer
Classes
Props
24. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Tween(ing)
Flipbook
Function
Graphic Symbols
25. 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
Edit
Flipbook
26. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Max and Dave Fleischer
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Increment Action
Ray Harryhausen
27. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Decrement Action
Parent-child relationship
J. Stuart Blackton
28. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
String variable
Background
Pixilation
Script
29. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
James Cameron
String variable
Theatre Optique
Audience
30. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Nesting
Pre-loader
Norman Mclaren
31. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Art Clokey
Zoopraxiscope
Props
Animation
32. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Device Central
Data type
Claymation
Tex Avery
33. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Tripod
Cel
Nesting
34. 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.
Frame
Stream sound
Bray Studios
Scene
35. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
HTML alignment
Nesting
Instance
Function
36. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Function
Broadband
Schlesinger Studios
Zoetrope
37. 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
Broadband
Pixar
Multiplane Camera
Nesting
38. 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
Walt Disney
Pixilation
Publish
39. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Anti-aliasing
Title
Walt Disney
Instance
40. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Trace
Max and Dave Fleischer
Check syntax
41. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Hanna -Barbera
Peg Bar
Keyframe
Publish
42. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Audience
Device Central
Pre-loader
Stop-Motion
43. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Movie clip symbol
Flipbook
Rotoscoping
Emile Cohl
44. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Trace
Props
Crossbar
Object
45. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Import
Onion Skin
Variable
Pre-loader
46. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Chuck Jones
Dynamic text field
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Persistance of Vision
47. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Title
Object
Anticipation
Button symbol
48. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Device Central
Event Listener
Frame
Emile Cohl
49. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Check syntax
AddChild
Praxinoscope
Property
50. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Squash and Stretch
Hanna -Barbera
Parent-child relationship
Event Listener