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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Background
Animation
Animated graphic symbol
Script
2. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Device Central
Event sounds
Ray Harryhausen
Conditional Actions
3. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
J. Stuart Blackton
String variable
Animation
Button symbol
4. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Library panel
AddChild
Graphic Symbols
Ray Harryhausen
5. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Graphic Symbols
Scene
Timing
24 frames
6. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Anti-aliasing
Code snippets
Trace
7. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Classes
Methods
Instance
Import to library
8. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Expressions
Scene
Crossbar
Magic Lantern
9. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
James Cameron
Storyboard
Nesting
Animation
10. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
Limited Animation
Anti-aliasing
Bandwidth Profiler
11. Brings graphics into the library
Import to library
Cue points
Background
Bandwidth Profiler
12. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Norman Mclaren
Thaumatrope
Willis O'Brien
Rotoscoping
13. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Trace
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Limited Animation
Number variable
14. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Object
Pre-loader
Exaggeration
Bandwidth Profiler
15. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
AddChild
Multiplane Camera
Tween(ing)
Credits
16. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Multiplane Camera
Broadband
Increment Action
Schlesinger Studios
17. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Flipbook
Library panel
Exaggeration
Event Listener
18. 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.
Otto Messmer
Import
Decrement Action
Break apart
19. 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)
Movie clip symbol
Event sounds
Max and Dave Fleischer
UPA
20. King Kong
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21. Terminator 2
Loop
James Cameron
Library panel
Emile Cohl
22. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Chuck Jones
DSL
Cel
23. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Button symbol
Publish
Methods
Frame
24. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Onion Skin
Event Listener
Claymation
Expressions
25. 1 second (default)
String variable
Ease In and Ease out
Edit
24 frames
26. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Persistance of Vision
Audience
Tripod
Ease In and Ease out
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
Multiplane Camera
Movie clip symbol
Variable
Device Central
28. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Onion Skin
Button symbol
Library panel
Cel
29. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
J. Stuart Blackton
Loop
Button symbol
Import
30. Graphic based on pixels
String variable
Increment Action
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Theatre Optique
31. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Rotoscoping
Import
Tripod
Pre-loader
32. Fantasmagorie
Dynamic text field
Credits
Code snippets
Emile Cohl
33. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Expressions
Schlesinger Studios
Scene
34. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Vector graphic
UPA
Code snippets
Decrement Action
35. 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.
Credits
Flipbook
Event sounds
Dynamic text field
36. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Chuck Jones
String variable
Emile Cohl
Edit
37. 1 second (default)
Edit
Peg Bar
Actions panel
24 frames
38. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Credits
Appeal
Pixar
Pixilation
39. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Event sounds
Loop
Winsor McCay
Title
40. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Increment Action
Frame
Props
Tripod
41. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Edit
Multiplane Camera
Import to stage
Stop-Motion
42. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Anticipation
Bandwidth Profiler
Theatre Optique
Methods
43. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Timeline
Decrement Action
Components
T1
44. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Max and Dave Fleischer
Bray Studios
Schlesinger Studios
Function
45. Scenery hung at back of stage
Otto Messmer
Background
Parent-child relationship
Pixilation
46. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Winsor McCay
Cel
Decrement Action
Number variable
47. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Limited Animation
Decrement Action
Claymation
Vector graphic
48. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Edit
Rotoscoping
Persistance of Vision
49. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
T1
Title
Trace
AddChild
50. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Parent-child relationship
Tripod
Publish
Broadband