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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations






2. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document






3. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.






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






5. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)






6. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.






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






8. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.






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






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






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






12. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.






13. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.






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






15. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud






16. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.






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






18. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






19. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.






20. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition






21. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.






22. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.






23. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.






24. Brings graphics into the library






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






26. 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)






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






28. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.






29. An image calculated and stored according to mathematical formulas rather than pixels - resulting in a smaller file size and the ability to resize the image without a loss in quality.






30. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.






31. Scenery hung at back of stage






32. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.






33. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






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






35. 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.






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






37. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -






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






39. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.






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






41. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.






42. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)






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






44. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.






45. 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






46. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.






47. 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






48. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.






49. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.






50. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files