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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Components
Phenakistoscope
Flipbook
Squash and Stretch
2. The process of changing one data type to another.
Object
Casting
Function
Library panel
3. 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
Loop
HTML alignment
Phenakistoscope
Flash Lite
4. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Import to stage
Casting
Tripod
Animated graphic symbol
5. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Stream sound
Trace
Storyboard
Bandwidth Profiler
6. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Squash and Stretch
Tripod
Components
Graphic Symbols
7. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Persistance of Vision
Conditional Actions
Variable
Anti-aliasing
8. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
DSL
James Cameron
Emile Reynaud
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
Timing
Number variable
Zoopraxiscope
24 frames
10. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Tween(ing)
Willis O'Brien
Exaggeration
Persistance of Vision
11. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Peter Jackson
Multiplane Camera
Import to library
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
12. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Edit
Hanna -Barbera
Schlesinger Studios
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
13. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Pixar
Bandwidth Profiler
String variable
Winsor McCay
14. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Phenakistoscope
Flipbook
Title
Data type
15. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Art Clokey
Loader Component
Chuck Jones
Persistance of Vision
16. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
HTML alignment
Zoopraxiscope
Tim Burton
Increment Action
17. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Graphic Symbols
Tim Burton
Multiplane Camera
18. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Vector graphic
Praxinoscope
Zoopraxiscope
Tween(ing)
19. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Property
Library panel
Peg Bar
Appeal
20. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Function
Thaumatrope
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
J. Stuart Blackton
21. Terminator 2
Norman Mclaren
Graphic Symbols
James Cameron
Multiplane Camera
22. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Graphic Symbols
Number variable
Library panel
Break apart
23. The process of changing one data type to another.
Library panel
Hanna -Barbera
Casting
Rotoscoping
24. 1 second (default)
Timeline
Pixilation
Max and Dave Fleischer
24 frames
25. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Movie clip symbol
Winsor McCay
Methods
Aardman Studios
26. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Nesting
Instance
Decrement Action
Pixilation
27. 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
Frame
T1
Bandwidth Profiler
Multiplane Camera
28. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Peter Jackson
Tex Avery
Function
Peg Bar
29. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Emile Cohl
Storyboard
Winsor McCay
30. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Peg Bar
Broadband
Scene
Persistance of Vision
31. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
String variable
Max and Dave Fleischer
Zoopraxiscope
Stream sound
32. 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
Check syntax
Phenakistoscope
Stream sound
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
33. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Pixar
Classes
Credits
Walt Disney
34. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Claymation
Winsor McCay
Number variable
Nesting
35. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Dynamic text field
HTML alignment
Property
Schlesinger Studios
36. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Frame
Emile Reynaud
Components
37. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Props
Title
Props
Object
38. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Decrement Action
Praxinoscope
Winsor McCay
Credits
39. 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.
24 frames
Event sounds
Loader Component
Schlesinger Studios
40. 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.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Limited Animation
Increment Action
UPA
41. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Crossbar
Expressions
Classes
DSL
42. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Schlesinger Studios
Frame
Rotoscoping
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
43. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Cue points
Event sounds
Title
Hanna -Barbera
44. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Tween(ing)
Peg Bar
Rotoscoping
Movie clip symbol
45. Items - such as drawings and text - that are placed on the Stage and can be edited and manipulated. In ActionScript 3.0 - an instance of a class that inherits the attributes and functionality of a class.
Emile Cohl
Trace
Object
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
46. Fantasmagorie
Code snippets
Emile Cohl
Praxinoscope
Otto Messmer
47. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
Limited Animation
Max and Dave Fleischer
Loader Component
48. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Methods
Keyframe
Ease In and Ease out
Loader Component
49. 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.
HTML alignment
Limited Animation
Components
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
50. Graphic based on pixels
Loop
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Zoetrope
Claymation