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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Property
Tex Avery
Walt Disney
Dynamic text field
2. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Multiplane Camera
Flash Lite
Anticipation
Pixar
3. Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
AddChild
Winsor McCay
Device Central
4. 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.
Hanna -Barbera
Limited Animation
Conditional Actions
Components
5. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Zoetrope
Bandwidth Profiler
Chuck Jones
Tex Avery
6. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Animation
Increment Action
Variable
7. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
DSL
Norman Mclaren
Tripod
Event sounds
8. 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)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Rotoscoping
Cue points
Animation
9. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Frame
Title
Flipbook
10. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Classes
Aardman Studios
Zoopraxiscope
Expressions
11. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Broadband
Hanna -Barbera
Walt Disney
Ray Harryhausen
12. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Emile Reynaud
Nesting
Stop-Motion
Thaumatrope
13. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Check syntax
Title
HTML alignment
Methods
14. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Tex Avery
Increment Action
J. Stuart Blackton
Bray Studios
15. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Art Clokey
Zoetrope
Script
Pixilation
16. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Dynamic text field
Pixilation
Vector graphic
Casting
17. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Ray Harryhausen
Hanna -Barbera
Stop-Motion
Graphic Symbols
18. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Flipbook
Methods
HTML alignment
Tripod
19. 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.
24 frames
Break apart
Conditional Actions
Frame
20. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Classes
Pixar
Movie clip symbol
Nesting
21. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Multiplane Camera
Actions panel
Import to stage
Tween(ing)
22. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Peter Jackson
Bandwidth Profiler
Import
HTML alignment
23. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Art Clokey
Otto Messmer
Thaumatrope
Edit
24. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Pixilation
Magic Lantern
Peg Bar
Onion Skin
25. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Title
Animated graphic symbol
Onion Skin
Event Listener
26. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Decrement Action
Tween(ing)
Classes
Tex Avery
27. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Loader Component
Ease In and Ease out
Animated graphic symbol
Import to library
28. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Cue points
UPA
Flipbook
29. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Break apart
Movie clip symbol
Winsor McCay
Timeline
30. 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
Exaggeration
Multiplane Camera
Trace
Edit
31. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Animated graphic symbol
Persistance of Vision
Stop-Motion
Edit
32. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Publish
Device Central
Import
Audience
33. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Timeline
Components
Hanna -Barbera
Conditional Actions
34. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Increment Action
Animation
Expressions
Device Central
35. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Animated graphic symbol
AddChild
Title
36. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Winsor McCay
Graphic Symbols
Check syntax
Pixilation
37. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Schlesinger Studios
Tween(ing)
Magic Lantern
Keyframe
38. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
J. Stuart Blackton
Hanna -Barbera
Flash Lite
Decrement Action
39. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Squash and Stretch
Publish
Ray Harryhausen
Classes
40. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Tween(ing)
Multiplane Camera
Code snippets
Function
41. 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.
Device Central
Vector graphic
Object
Otto Messmer
42. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Object
T1
Limited Animation
43. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Schlesinger Studios
Expressions
Emile Cohl
Chuck Jones
44. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Data type
Cel
AddChild
DSL
45. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Crossbar
Library panel
Vector graphic
Art Clokey
46. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Frame
Dynamic text field
Tim Burton
Library panel
47. 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.
Classes
Keyframe
Winsor McCay
Stream sound
48. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Code snippets
Max and Dave Fleischer
Max and Dave Fleischer
49. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Persistance of Vision
James Cameron
Max and Dave Fleischer
Keyframe
50. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Multiplane Camera
Expressions
Trace