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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. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Zoetrope
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Frame
Tim Burton
2. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Number variable
Otto Messmer
Anticipation
Tex Avery
3. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Theatre Optique
Storyboard
Loader Component
Ray Harryhausen
4. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Trace
Graphic Symbols
Publish
5. Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
Check syntax
Credits
James Cameron
6. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Crossbar
Expressions
Loop
Cue points
7. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
Title
Anticipation
Flipbook
8. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Vector graphic
Actions panel
Willis O'Brien
9. 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
Props
Chuck Jones
Exaggeration
10. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Emile Cohl
Variable
Pre-loader
Cue points
11. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Stream sound
Animation
Zoopraxiscope
Art Clokey
12. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Storyboard
24 frames
Broadband
Norman Mclaren
13. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Casting
Title
Timeline
Loop
14. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Methods
Schlesinger Studios
Increment Action
Loader Component
15. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Walt Disney
Pixar
Phenakistoscope
Schlesinger Studios
16. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Onion Skin
Phenakistoscope
Event Listener
Event Listener
17. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Pixilation
Title
String variable
Winsor McCay
18. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Code snippets
Tim Burton
J. Stuart Blackton
Peter Jackson
19. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Device Central
T1
Break apart
20. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Title
Background
Variable
Animated graphic symbol
21. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Tween(ing)
Edit
Stop-Motion
Zoopraxiscope
22. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Increment Action
Classes
Dynamic text field
Squash and Stretch
23. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
T1
Instance
Stream sound
Zoetrope
24. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Title
Publish
Peg Bar
Walt Disney
25. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Library panel
Publish
Tim Burton
J. Stuart Blackton
26. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Credits
Art Clokey
Emile Reynaud
Event Listener
27. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Dynamic text field
Frame
Credits
Number variable
28. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Pixar
Animated graphic symbol
Title
Emile Reynaud
29. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Break apart
Credits
Loop
String variable
30. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Import
Stop-Motion
Walt Disney
Keyframe
31. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Nesting
Max and Dave Fleischer
Peter Jackson
Event Listener
32. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Willis O'Brien
Thaumatrope
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Props
33. 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
Bray Studios
DSL
Script
Timing
34. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Max and Dave Fleischer
Rotoscoping
Hanna -Barbera
Credits
35. 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.
Break apart
AddChild
Animated graphic symbol
Timeline
36. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Audience
Flipbook
Thaumatrope
Variable
37. 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.
Graphic Symbols
Multiplane Camera
Event sounds
Increment Action
38. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Classes
Timing
Otto Messmer
AddChild
39. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Limited Animation
Tripod
Chuck Jones
Flipbook
40. Fantasmagorie
Event sounds
Emile Cohl
Bray Studios
Zoetrope
41. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Magic Lantern
Theatre Optique
Classes
42. 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
Object
Button symbol
Frame
43. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Broadband
Pixar
Pixar
44. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
DSL
Tween(ing)
Import to stage
Dynamic text field
45. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Tween(ing)
Event Listener
Onion Skin
Decrement Action
46. 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)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Multiplane Camera
Walt Disney
Norman Mclaren
47. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Limited Animation
Conditional Actions
Graphic Symbols
Script
48. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Import
Number variable
Timeline
Code snippets
49. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Art Clokey
Event Listener
Schlesinger Studios
Persistance of Vision
50. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Bray Studios
String variable
Persistance of Vision
Conditional Actions