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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. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Publish
Crossbar
Timing
2. 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
Loop
HTML alignment
Increment Action
3. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Storyboard
Norman Mclaren
UPA
Device Central
4. 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.
Animated graphic symbol
Variable
Break apart
Vector graphic
5. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Praxinoscope
Anticipation
Animated graphic symbol
Decrement Action
6. 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
Cue points
Function
Theatre Optique
7. 1 second (default)
DSL
Exaggeration
24 frames
Vector graphic
8. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Tim Burton
Appeal
Persistance of Vision
Winsor McCay
9. 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
Pixar
Timing
Methods
10. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Actions panel
Stream sound
Pixilation
Tex Avery
11. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Stop-Motion
Pre-loader
Pixilation
Hanna -Barbera
12. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Variable
Vector graphic
Bandwidth Profiler
Aardman Studios
13. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Movie clip symbol
Praxinoscope
Property
14. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Actions panel
Theatre Optique
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Anti-aliasing
15. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Norman Mclaren
Expressions
Title
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
16. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
DSL
Nesting
Background
Event sounds
17. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Otto Messmer
Components
Theatre Optique
Movie clip symbol
18. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Tween(ing)
J. Stuart Blackton
Norman Mclaren
Walt Disney
19. 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.
Anticipation
Broadband
Import
Crossbar
20. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Stop-Motion
Pre-loader
Function
Timing
21. 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)
Title
Claymation
Max and Dave Fleischer
Ray Harryhausen
22. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Cue points
Emile Cohl
Storyboard
Decrement Action
23. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Number variable
Instance
Flipbook
Walt Disney
24. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Edit
Bray Studios
Scene
Expressions
25. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Tween(ing)
Trace
Ease In and Ease out
Phenakistoscope
26. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Praxinoscope
UPA
Ray Harryhausen
Chuck Jones
27. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Nesting
Actions panel
Function
Publish
28. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Library panel
Title
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
29. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Broadband
Zoetrope
Art Clokey
Tripod
30. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Methods
Peter Jackson
Zoetrope
Magic Lantern
31. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Otto Messmer
Cel
Peg Bar
32. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Property
Event sounds
Credits
33. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Credits
Property
Expressions
Scene
34. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Flash Lite
Otto Messmer
Audience
Norman Mclaren
35. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Casting
DSL
String variable
Props
36. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Ease In and Ease out
Thaumatrope
Number variable
Number variable
37. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Winsor McCay
Winsor McCay
Anti-aliasing
38. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Tex Avery
Device Central
Event sounds
39. Scenery hung at back of stage
Tim Burton
Frame
Chuck Jones
Background
40. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Otto Messmer
Frame
24 frames
Squash and Stretch
41. 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
Variable
Hanna -Barbera
Components
42. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Stop-Motion
Expressions
Tween(ing)
Ray Harryhausen
43. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Loop
Number variable
Ray Harryhausen
Winsor McCay
44. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Praxinoscope
Loop
Casting
Button symbol
45. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Stop-Motion
Publish
Art Clokey
46. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Ray Harryhausen
Tripod
Schlesinger Studios
Event Listener
47. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Ease In and Ease out
Flash Lite
Claymation
Function
48. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
24 frames
HTML alignment
Aardman Studios
Parent-child relationship
49. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Import to library
Squash and Stretch
Timeline
Onion Skin
50. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Cue points
Animation
Import to stage
Aardman Studios