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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Break apart
J. Stuart Blackton
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Winsor McCay
2. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Frame
Frame
Decrement Action
Peter Jackson
3. King Kong
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4. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Parent-child relationship
Increment Action
Nesting
Persistance of Vision
5. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Background
Tex Avery
HTML alignment
Frame
6. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Hanna -Barbera
Actions panel
Anti-aliasing
7. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Art Clokey
Tween(ing)
Anticipation
Animated graphic symbol
8. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Break apart
Function
Library panel
UPA
9. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Library panel
Nesting
Decrement Action
Otto Messmer
10. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Tripod
Conditional Actions
Pre-loader
Magic Lantern
11. 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
Storyboard
Winsor McCay
Expressions
12. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Audience
Credits
Check syntax
Timing
13. Brings graphics into the library
Audience
Peg Bar
Import to library
Number variable
14. 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
Keyframe
Ray Harryhausen
Timing
Dynamic text field
15. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Dynamic text field
Actions panel
Emile Reynaud
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
16. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Aardman Studios
Check syntax
Flipbook
Animation
17. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Persistance of Vision
Praxinoscope
Credits
James Cameron
18. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Cue points
Max and Dave Fleischer
Conditional Actions
Pre-loader
19. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Casting
Tripod
Loop
Script
20. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Flash Lite
Anticipation
Walt Disney
UPA
21. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Code snippets
Title
Schlesinger Studios
22. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Script
Ray Harryhausen
Flash Lite
Praxinoscope
23. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Title
Property
Loop
Import to stage
24. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Squash and Stretch
Title
Winsor McCay
Peter Jackson
25. 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
Pre-loader
Ray Harryhausen
Graphic Symbols
26. 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
Zoopraxiscope
Bandwidth Profiler
Flash Lite
Claymation
27. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Instance
Scene
Number variable
Dynamic text field
28. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Import to stage
Loop
Flash Lite
29. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Tripod
Data type
Peg Bar
J. Stuart Blackton
30. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Components
Import to library
Onion Skin
Crossbar
31. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Storyboard
Tween(ing)
Thaumatrope
Button symbol
32. Terminator 2
Frame
Ease In and Ease out
Onion Skin
James Cameron
33. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
Stream sound
Stop-Motion
Library panel
34. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Classes
Claymation
Winsor McCay
Flipbook
35. 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
Flash Lite
Import to library
Otto Messmer
Parent-child relationship
36. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Zoetrope
Conditional Actions
Number variable
Keyframe
37. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Check syntax
Object
Ease In and Ease out
38. 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)
Script
Code snippets
Max and Dave Fleischer
J. Stuart Blackton
39. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Number variable
Animated graphic symbol
Onion Skin
Decrement Action
40. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Onion Skin
Pixar
Methods
Multiplane Camera
41. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
J. Stuart Blackton
Schlesinger Studios
Object
Import to stage
42. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Exaggeration
HTML alignment
Credits
AddChild
43. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
AddChild
Props
Claymation
Dynamic text field
44. Graphic based on pixels
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Edit
Onion Skin
Background
45. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Break apart
Winsor McCay
Vector graphic
Ray Harryhausen
46. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Walt Disney
Scene
Claymation
Import to stage
47. 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
HTML alignment
Phenakistoscope
Nesting
Tim Burton
48. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Actions panel
Publish
Props
Increment Action
49. 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.
Property
Praxinoscope
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Vector graphic
50. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Anti-aliasing
Vector graphic
Max and Dave Fleischer