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Animation Basics

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1. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.






2. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)






3. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.






4. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.






5. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.






6. 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.






7. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.






8. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it






9. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?






10. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.






11. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






12. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.






13. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.






14. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.






15. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.






16. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)






17. 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)






18. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






19. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






20. 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.






21. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story






22. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.






23. 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.






24. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas






25. The process of changing one data type to another.






26. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.






27. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.






28. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.






29. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






30. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.






31. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page






32. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.






33. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.






34. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.






35. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird






36. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.






37. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera






38. Gumby - Davey and Goliath






39. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations






40. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.






41. 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.






42. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.






43. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)






44. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.






45. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie






46. 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.






47. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.






48. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine






49. Brings graphics into the library






50. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.







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