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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. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Actions panel
Movie clip symbol
Otto Messmer
Loop
2. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Increment Action
Rotoscoping
Storyboard
Stop-Motion
3. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
James Cameron
Event Listener
Tween(ing)
Device Central
4. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Pre-loader
Max and Dave Fleischer
Ray Harryhausen
Willis O'Brien
5. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Vector graphic
Theatre Optique
Tween(ing)
Peg Bar
6. 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
Increment Action
Break apart
Willis O'Brien
7. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Nesting
Increment Action
Anti-aliasing
T1
8. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Decrement Action
UPA
Art Clokey
Ray Harryhausen
9. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Script
Persistance of Vision
Chuck Jones
10. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Claymation
Art Clokey
Pixilation
DSL
11. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Timeline
Aardman Studios
T1
Storyboard
12. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Walt Disney
Props
Loader Component
Pixilation
13. 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.
Praxinoscope
Increment Action
Decrement Action
Stream sound
14. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Claymation
Parent-child relationship
Timeline
Edit
15. 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.
Tween(ing)
Event sounds
Appeal
Zoetrope
16. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Rotoscoping
Script
Increment Action
Peter Jackson
17. 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
Loader Component
Onion Skin
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
18. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Art Clokey
Persistance of Vision
Library panel
James Cameron
19. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Zoopraxiscope
Pre-loader
Scene
Peter Jackson
20. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Audience
Break apart
Parent-child relationship
21. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Library panel
James Cameron
Phenakistoscope
Credits
22. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Object
Aardman Studios
Check syntax
Variable
23. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Library panel
Chuck Jones
Property
Pixar
24. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Decrement Action
Chuck Jones
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Squash and Stretch
25. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Thaumatrope
Edit
Credits
26. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Tripod
Emile Cohl
Willis O'Brien
27. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Art Clokey
Persistance of Vision
Button symbol
Publish
28. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Multiplane Camera
Limited Animation
Peter Jackson
J. Stuart Blackton
29. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Instance
T1
Increment Action
Flipbook
30. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
Nesting
Broadband
Exaggeration
31. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Aardman Studios
Publish
Hanna -Barbera
String variable
32. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Aardman Studios
Device Central
Classes
Event Listener
33. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Classes
Decrement Action
Tripod
Winsor McCay
34. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Nesting
Property
Loader Component
Graphic Symbols
35. King Kong
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36. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Import to stage
Graphic Symbols
Chuck Jones
Number variable
37. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Code snippets
Function
AddChild
Stream sound
38. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Emile Reynaud
Persistance of Vision
Property
Button symbol
39. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Parent-child relationship
Function
Chuck Jones
40. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
24 frames
Claymation
Timeline
Appeal
41. 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
Thaumatrope
Cue points
Break apart
42. 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.
Broadband
Walt Disney
Button symbol
Components
43. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Winsor McCay
Conditional Actions
Actions panel
Vector graphic
44. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Peg Bar
Number variable
Zoetrope
Cue points
45. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Pixilation
String variable
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Props
46. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Decrement Action
Credits
Library panel
Import to library
47. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
James Cameron
Magic Lantern
Button symbol
Data type
48. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Bandwidth Profiler
Import
Exaggeration
Otto Messmer
49. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Anti-aliasing
Cel
Props
Zoetrope
50. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Crossbar
Parent-child relationship
Squash and Stretch
Frame