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Animation Basics
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1. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Increment Action
Zoopraxiscope
Import to library
Flipbook
2. 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
Parent-child relationship
Keyframe
DSL
Frame
3. 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.
Limited Animation
Import
Praxinoscope
Keyframe
4. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Button symbol
Expressions
Keyframe
5. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Anticipation
Zoopraxiscope
Conditional Actions
Aardman Studios
6. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Import
Keyframe
24 frames
Publish
7. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Emile Reynaud
Tripod
Otto Messmer
Onion Skin
8. Brings graphics into the library
Event sounds
Cel
Import to library
Multiplane Camera
9. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Methods
Decrement Action
Pixilation
Walt Disney
10. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Pixar
Ray Harryhausen
Button symbol
Vector graphic
11. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Ray Harryhausen
Storyboard
Audience
Otto Messmer
12. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Pixar
Emile Reynaud
Appeal
13. Fantasmagorie
Peter Jackson
Emile Cohl
Scene
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
14. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Nesting
Loop
Emile Reynaud
Peter Jackson
15. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Squash and Stretch
Exaggeration
Loader Component
Anti-aliasing
16. 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
Rotoscoping
Edit
Parent-child relationship
Break apart
17. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Winsor McCay
Crossbar
Flash Lite
Instance
18. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Code snippets
Pixar
Zoetrope
Event Listener
19. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Willis O'Brien
Parent-child relationship
Vector graphic
20. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Ray Harryhausen
Phenakistoscope
Theatre Optique
21. 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
String variable
Anti-aliasing
Phenakistoscope
22. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Import
String variable
Squash and Stretch
23. 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
Property
Scene
Device Central
24. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Classes
Timeline
T1
Ease In and Ease out
25. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Rotoscoping
Flash Lite
Magic Lantern
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
26. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Break apart
Code snippets
J. Stuart Blackton
27. 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.
Tripod
Break apart
Ray Harryhausen
Event sounds
28. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Multiplane Camera
Vector graphic
Library panel
29. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Conditional Actions
Movie clip symbol
Event sounds
Function
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.
Willis O'Brien
Loop
Claymation
Persistance of Vision
31. 1 second (default)
Conditional Actions
Cel
Schlesinger Studios
24 frames
32. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
24 frames
Magic Lantern
Graphic Symbols
Stream sound
33. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
String variable
Data type
String variable
34. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Methods
Dynamic text field
Classes
Persistance of Vision
35. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Dynamic text field
Script
Walt Disney
Cue points
36. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Flipbook
Bray Studios
Emile Cohl
Credits
37. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Scene
Graphic Symbols
Expressions
Multiplane Camera
38. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Parent-child relationship
Import
Property
James Cameron
39. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Emile Reynaud
HTML alignment
Walt Disney
40. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
T1
Timing
Cue points
Variable
41. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Data type
Stream sound
Anticipation
Device Central
42. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Schlesinger Studios
Check syntax
Nesting
43. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Credits
Phenakistoscope
Crossbar
44. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Function
Object
Property
Script
45. 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.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Max and Dave Fleischer
Break apart
Conditional Actions
46. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Stop-Motion
Thaumatrope
Storyboard
Theatre Optique
47. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Tween(ing)
Import to stage
Script
Magic Lantern
48. Brings graphics into the library
Check syntax
DSL
Script
Import to library
49. 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
Script
Anti-aliasing
Zoopraxiscope
Ray Harryhausen
50. Graphic based on pixels
Import to library
Data type
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Theatre Optique