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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.






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






3. 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






4. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






5. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






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






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






8. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts






9. 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






10. Brings graphics into the library






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






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






13. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. Scenery hung at back of stage






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






20. 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.






21. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie






22. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story






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






24. Terminator 2






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






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






27. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






28. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel






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






30. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page






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






32. Gumby - Davey and Goliath






33. 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






34. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.






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






36. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.






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






38. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.






39. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.






40. 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






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






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






43. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.






44. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)






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






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






47. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.






48. 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.






49. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.






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