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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Storyboard
Stream sound
String variable
Instance
2. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Tween(ing)
Appeal
Actions panel
Claymation
3. A sound that plays independently of the Timeline. The sound starts in the keyframe to which it is added - but it can continue playing even after a movie ends. Must download completely before it begins playing.
Rotoscoping
Crossbar
Event sounds
Storyboard
4. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Audience
Tween(ing)
5. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Cue points
James Cameron
Phenakistoscope
Property
6. 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
Bray Studios
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Code snippets
Timing
7. The process of changing one data type to another.
Property
J. Stuart Blackton
Script
Casting
8. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Emile Cohl
Phenakistoscope
Otto Messmer
9. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Actions panel
Winsor McCay
Background
Art Clokey
10. Brings graphics into the library
Import to library
Nesting
Chuck Jones
Storyboard
11. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Function
Publish
Peter Jackson
Emile Reynaud
12. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Peg Bar
Zoetrope
Stop-Motion
13. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Animation
Check syntax
Exaggeration
Pixilation
14. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Event Listener
Flipbook
Art Clokey
Scene
15. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Data type
Pixar
Stream sound
Graphic Symbols
16. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Appeal
Claymation
AddChild
Crossbar
17. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
DSL
Classes
Title
Animation
18. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Methods
Chuck Jones
Animated graphic symbol
Bray Studios
19. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Parent-child relationship
Tween(ing)
Hanna -Barbera
Flash Lite
20. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Trace
Graphic Symbols
Loader Component
String variable
21. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Storyboard
Cue points
Device Central
Code snippets
22. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Stop-Motion
Decrement Action
Emile Cohl
Cel
23. 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.
Nesting
Broadband
Break apart
Onion Skin
24. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Ease In and Ease out
Methods
Conditional Actions
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
25. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Flipbook
Keyframe
UPA
Limited Animation
26. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Praxinoscope
Import to stage
Background
Walt Disney
27. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Methods
Loop
Dynamic text field
28. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Vector graphic
Library panel
Title
Property
29. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Dynamic text field
Praxinoscope
Storyboard
Data type
30. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Stream sound
Peter Jackson
Multiplane Camera
Appeal
31. Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
Property
Instance
Decrement Action
32. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Library panel
Components
Cue points
Instance
33. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Break apart
Anticipation
UPA
Trace
34. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bandwidth Profiler
Anti-aliasing
Phenakistoscope
35. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Pixar
Loader Component
Stream sound
Nesting
36. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Increment Action
Pixar
Walt Disney
Peter Jackson
37. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Script
Crossbar
Actions panel
Pre-loader
38. 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
Ray Harryhausen
Parent-child relationship
Max and Dave Fleischer
Background
39. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Code snippets
Willis O'Brien
Praxinoscope
Expressions
40. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Stream sound
Zoetrope
Methods
Peg Bar
41. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Cel
Pixar
Import to stage
Background
42. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Bray Studios
Graphic Symbols
Device Central
DSL
43. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Publish
Tex Avery
HTML alignment
Increment Action
44. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Praxinoscope
Cue points
DSL
Increment Action
45. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Publish
Hanna -Barbera
Ease In and Ease out
Crossbar
46. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Movie clip symbol
Cel
Instance
Anticipation
47. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Audience
Flash Lite
Code snippets
Peg Bar
48. 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
Casting
Zoopraxiscope
Script
Crossbar
49. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Emile Reynaud
J. Stuart Blackton
Break apart
Persistance of Vision
50. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Zoopraxiscope
Emile Reynaud
Instance