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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
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1. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.






2. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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.






6. Gumby - Davey and Goliath






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






8. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.






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






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






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






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






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






14. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.






15. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.






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






17. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts






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






19. A description of the hierarchical relationship that develops between nested symbols - especially nested movie clip symbols. When you insert a movie clip inside another movie clip - the inserted clip is considered the child and the original clip is th






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






21. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts






22. 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






23. Terminator 2






24. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.






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






26. Fantasmagorie






27. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






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






29. 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






30. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.






31. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.






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






33. Scenery hung at back of stage






34. Flattens out and elongate slightly






35. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






36. A description of the hierarchical relationship that develops between nested symbols - especially nested movie clip symbols. When you insert a movie clip inside another movie clip - the inserted clip is considered the child and the original clip is th






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. King Kong

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






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






46. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






47. 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.






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






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






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