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Animation Basics
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1. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Script
Emile Cohl
Tex Avery
Pixar
2. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Timing
Actions panel
Chuck Jones
3. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Data type
Thaumatrope
Casting
Zoopraxiscope
4. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Tex Avery
Tim Burton
Chuck Jones
Break apart
5. The process of changing one data type to another.
Emile Cohl
Casting
Background
Library panel
6. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Import
Casting
Event sounds
Scene
7. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
DSL
Tween(ing)
Pre-loader
Theatre Optique
8. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Decrement Action
Publish
Cue points
Art Clokey
9. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Variable
Ease In and Ease out
Norman Mclaren
UPA
10. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Tim Burton
T1
Device Central
HTML alignment
11. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Timing
Keyframe
Crossbar
Tween(ing)
12. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Flash Lite
Flipbook
Credits
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
13. Items - such as drawings and text - that are placed on the Stage and can be edited and manipulated. In ActionScript 3.0 - an instance of a class that inherits the attributes and functionality of a class.
Stream sound
Object
Storyboard
Device Central
14. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Emile Reynaud
Tween(ing)
Stream sound
Loader Component
15. 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
Pre-loader
Thaumatrope
Anticipation
16. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Credits
Keyframe
Phenakistoscope
Stop-Motion
17. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Property
Data type
Ease In and Ease out
Cue points
18. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
James Cameron
Rotoscoping
Background
Import
19. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Peter Jackson
Theatre Optique
Claymation
Loader Component
20. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Actions panel
Magic Lantern
Max and Dave Fleischer
21. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Bray Studios
Pixar
Audience
Pre-loader
22. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Ray Harryhausen
Tim Burton
Expressions
Data type
23. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Zoopraxiscope
Parent-child relationship
Praxinoscope
24. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Publish
Zoopraxiscope
Tween(ing)
Pixilation
25. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Conditional Actions
Decrement Action
Theatre Optique
Break apart
26. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Event Listener
Claymation
Rotoscoping
Chuck Jones
27. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Pixilation
Increment Action
Function
T1
28. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Event Listener
Praxinoscope
Timeline
Increment Action
29. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
James Cameron
Otto Messmer
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Stop-Motion
30. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Rotoscoping
Persistance of Vision
Chuck Jones
J. Stuart Blackton
31. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Zoopraxiscope
Walt Disney
Casting
Function
32. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
String variable
Import to library
Timeline
Animated graphic symbol
33. Terminator 2
Rotoscoping
James Cameron
Phenakistoscope
Zoopraxiscope
34. Brings graphics into the library
Break apart
Import to library
Exaggeration
Theatre Optique
35. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Storyboard
Loader Component
Zoopraxiscope
Import to stage
36. 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)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Broadband
AddChild
Max and Dave Fleischer
37. A spinning disc mounted vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look throug
Phenakistoscope
Willis O'Brien
Peter Jackson
Dynamic text field
38. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Peg Bar
Property
Thaumatrope
Hanna -Barbera
39. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Casting
Device Central
James Cameron
Methods
40. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Ease In and Ease out
Persistance of Vision
Increment Action
Classes
41. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Event Listener
Schlesinger Studios
Classes
Anti-aliasing
42. Scenery hung at back of stage
Vector graphic
Background
Peg Bar
String variable
43. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Timing
Classes
Cel
Squash and Stretch
44. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Props
Pixilation
Animation
Event Listener
45. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Import
Crossbar
Tween(ing)
Number variable
46. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Art Clokey
Code snippets
Loop
Loader Component
47. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Timeline
Expressions
Nesting
Broadband
48. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Loop
Otto Messmer
Publish
Magic Lantern
49. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Pre-loader
Zoopraxiscope
Timing
Check syntax
50. 1 second (default)
Methods
Chuck Jones
Anti-aliasing
24 frames
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