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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Tex Avery
Magic Lantern
Hanna -Barbera
Movie clip symbol
2. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Function
Trace
Animation
Loader Component
3. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Number variable
Zoopraxiscope
Casting
String variable
4. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Theatre Optique
Cel
Flipbook
Squash and Stretch
5. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Emile Cohl
Button symbol
Norman Mclaren
Ease In and Ease out
6. The process of changing one data type to another.
Casting
Walt Disney
Otto Messmer
Import to library
7. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Broadband
Methods
Tim Burton
Magic Lantern
8. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Walt Disney
Flash Lite
Props
Theatre Optique
9. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Import to library
Graphic Symbols
HTML alignment
Stream sound
10. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Claymation
Bray Studios
Event Listener
Ray Harryhausen
11. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Event sounds
Schlesinger Studios
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
12. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
24 frames
Number variable
Check syntax
Praxinoscope
13. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Stop-Motion
Tripod
Decrement Action
Script
14. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Event sounds
Props
Chuck Jones
Library panel
15. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Tex Avery
Hanna -Barbera
Tim Burton
16. Brings graphics into the library
Import to stage
Anti-aliasing
Bandwidth Profiler
Import to library
17. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Pixilation
Schlesinger Studios
24 frames
Script
18. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Winsor McCay
Pixilation
Cue points
Onion Skin
19. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Trace
Loop
Zoopraxiscope
Decrement Action
20. Graphic based on pixels
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Anti-aliasing
Timing
Dynamic text field
21. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Casting
Methods
Tripod
22. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Flipbook
Storyboard
Appeal
Publish
23. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
UPA
Timing
DSL
Expressions
24. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Exaggeration
Event sounds
Import
Praxinoscope
25. Graphic based on pixels
Tex Avery
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Willis O'Brien
Import to stage
26. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Onion Skin
Tim Burton
Broadband
Break apart
27. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Peg Bar
Pre-loader
Animated graphic symbol
Walt Disney
28. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Peter Jackson
Ease In and Ease out
AddChild
Anti-aliasing
29. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
HTML alignment
Claymation
Timeline
Audience
30. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Broadband
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Pixilation
31. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
String variable
Theatre Optique
Edit
Script
32. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Title
Credits
J. Stuart Blackton
Props
33. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Animation
Button symbol
String variable
Variable
34. 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
Loop
Thaumatrope
Property
35. 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.
Stream sound
Movie clip symbol
Praxinoscope
Magic Lantern
36. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
DSL
J. Stuart Blackton
T1
Variable
37. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Scene
Praxinoscope
38. 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
Classes
Code snippets
39. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Timeline
Title
Import to library
Willis O'Brien
40. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Praxinoscope
Stop-Motion
Emile Reynaud
41. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Limited Animation
Emile Reynaud
Broadband
Ease In and Ease out
42. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Peter Jackson
Decrement Action
Squash and Stretch
Classes
43. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Animated graphic symbol
Property
J. Stuart Blackton
Nesting
44. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Scene
Winsor McCay
Data type
AddChild
45. To bring information into a computer or computer program
J. Stuart Blackton
Hanna -Barbera
Import
Variable
46. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Onion Skin
Otto Messmer
Button symbol
Check syntax
47. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Persistance of Vision
J. Stuart Blackton
Event sounds
Phenakistoscope
48. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Stop-Motion
Parent-child relationship
Event sounds
49. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
DSL
Components
Zoopraxiscope
Frame
50. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Publish
Data type
Dynamic text field
Tripod