Test your basic knowledge |

Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.






2. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.






3. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it






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






11. To bring information into a computer or computer program






12. Gumby - Davey and Goliath






13. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






14. 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.






15. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.






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






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






18. Created by Eadweard Muybridge. May be considered the first movie projector. Projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion






19. 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






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






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






22. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition






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






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






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






26. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.






27. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. Terminator 2






33. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.






34. 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.






35. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.






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






37. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud






38. Gumby - Davey and Goliath






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






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






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






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






43. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.






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






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






46. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






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






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






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






50. 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