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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fantasmagorie
Edit
Emile Cohl
Appeal
Import to stage
2. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Animation
Movie clip symbol
Nesting
Number variable
3. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
T1
Instance
Classes
Break apart
4. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Walt Disney
Tripod
Cel
Frame
5. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Schlesinger Studios
Stop-Motion
Otto Messmer
6. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Theatre Optique
Cue points
Max and Dave Fleischer
Keyframe
7. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Keyframe
AddChild
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
8. To bring information into a computer or computer program
J. Stuart Blackton
Bray Studios
Loop
Import
9. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Classes
Tween(ing)
Data type
Theatre Optique
10. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Library panel
Bandwidth Profiler
Event sounds
UPA
11. 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
Multiplane Camera
Tripod
Ray Harryhausen
Import to library
12. Fantasmagorie
Event sounds
Emile Cohl
Decrement Action
Script
13. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
J. Stuart Blackton
AddChild
Exaggeration
Persistance of Vision
14. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
HTML alignment
Actions panel
Theatre Optique
Peter Jackson
15. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Onion Skin
Keyframe
Components
Exaggeration
16. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Graphic Symbols
HTML alignment
Pixilation
Instance
17. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Variable
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Animated graphic symbol
Cel
18. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Script
Emile Reynaud
Import to library
Ray Harryhausen
19. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Norman Mclaren
Casting
20. Scenery hung at back of stage
Break apart
Multiplane Camera
Background
Bray Studios
21. 1 second (default)
Stream sound
Nesting
24 frames
Check syntax
22. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Tripod
Keyframe
Theatre Optique
Object
23. Brings graphics into the library
Zoetrope
AddChild
Import to library
Expressions
24. Scenery hung at back of stage
Methods
Background
Function
Ray Harryhausen
25. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Peter Jackson
Trace
Title
26. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Rotoscoping
Break apart
Zoopraxiscope
27. 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.
Multiplane Camera
Pre-loader
Limited Animation
Import to library
28. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Publish
Animation
Actions panel
Code snippets
29. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Classes
Animation
Title
Emile Cohl
30. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Movie clip symbol
Broadband
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Expressions
31. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Tripod
Timing
Background
AddChild
32. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Pixilation
Instance
Import to library
33. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Emile Reynaud
Anti-aliasing
Theatre Optique
34. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Audience
Claymation
Pre-loader
Import to stage
35. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
String variable
Loader Component
Tween(ing)
Willis O'Brien
36. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Art Clokey
Peg Bar
Praxinoscope
Classes
37. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Tex Avery
Object
Parent-child relationship
38. 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.
Flash Lite
Broadband
Nesting
Exaggeration
39. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
String variable
Expressions
Animated graphic symbol
Walt Disney
40. A spinning disc mounted vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look throug
Rotoscoping
Import to stage
Phenakistoscope
Max and Dave Fleischer
41. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Background
Ray Harryhausen
Object
Phenakistoscope
42. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Device Central
Loader Component
Multiplane Camera
Peter Jackson
43. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Frame
Components
Rotoscoping
Phenakistoscope
44. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
String variable
Max and Dave Fleischer
Parent-child relationship
Emile Reynaud
45. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Check syntax
Methods
Crossbar
Crossbar
46. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
UPA
Storyboard
Tim Burton
Publish
47. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Break apart
Keyframe
Squash and Stretch
Phenakistoscope
48. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Limited Animation
Schlesinger Studios
Peg Bar
Graphic Symbols
49. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Dynamic text field
Pre-loader
Anticipation
50. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Edit
Data type
Cue points
Parent-child relationship