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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Graphic Symbols
Appeal
Import to stage
Number variable
2. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Publish
Tween(ing)
Cel
Peter Jackson
3. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Break apart
Device Central
Script
Pixilation
4. Flattens out and elongate slightly
James Cameron
Vector graphic
Button symbol
Squash and Stretch
5. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Conditional Actions
Pixilation
Library panel
Loader Component
6. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Publish
Flash Lite
Function
Anticipation
7. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Trace
Tripod
Zoetrope
DSL
8. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Crossbar
Ray Harryhausen
Schlesinger Studios
Loop
9. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Animated graphic symbol
Zoopraxiscope
Trace
Keyframe
10. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Title
24 frames
Expressions
Increment Action
11. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Actions panel
Code snippets
Graphic Symbols
Credits
12. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Dynamic text field
Emile Reynaud
Parent-child relationship
Break apart
13. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Tripod
James Cameron
J. Stuart Blackton
Animation
14. 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.
Vector graphic
Loader Component
Scene
Pixilation
15. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
T1
Credits
Pre-loader
Movie clip symbol
16. Fantasmagorie
Emile Cohl
Persistance of Vision
Aardman Studios
UPA
17. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Decrement Action
Theatre Optique
Magic Lantern
Rotoscoping
18. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Number variable
Peter Jackson
Background
Multiplane Camera
19. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Edit
Thaumatrope
Library panel
Methods
20. 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
Movie clip symbol
Dynamic text field
Edit
21. 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
Onion Skin
Otto Messmer
Multiplane Camera
Expressions
22. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Persistance of Vision
Components
Tex Avery
Anticipation
23. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Persistance of Vision
Stop-Motion
Loader Component
Otto Messmer
24. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Components
Aardman Studios
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
25. 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.
Limited Animation
Code snippets
Variable
Tex Avery
26. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
T1
Tim Burton
Storyboard
Expressions
27. 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
Edit
Methods
Magic Lantern
28. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Winsor McCay
Frame
Willis O'Brien
Peg Bar
29. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Peg Bar
Props
Hanna -Barbera
Norman Mclaren
30. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Crossbar
Pixar
Tween(ing)
Expressions
31. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Multiplane Camera
Aardman Studios
Credits
Frame
32. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Timeline
Magic Lantern
Appeal
Cel
33. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Cue points
Publish
Function
Increment Action
34. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Squash and Stretch
Phenakistoscope
Frame
Schlesinger Studios
35. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Rotoscoping
Claymation
Check syntax
Squash and Stretch
36. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Schlesinger Studios
Ray Harryhausen
Squash and Stretch
Code snippets
37. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Otto Messmer
Magic Lantern
Conditional Actions
Ray Harryhausen
38. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Break apart
Appeal
Break apart
39. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Trace
Frame
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Zoetrope
40. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Magic Lantern
T1
Break apart
41. Brings graphics into the library
Import to library
Vector graphic
Object
Actions panel
42. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Theatre Optique
Thaumatrope
Hanna -Barbera
Zoopraxiscope
43. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Winsor McCay
Edit
Ray Harryhausen
Broadband
44. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Scene
Break apart
Variable
Decrement Action
45. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Conditional Actions
James Cameron
Audience
46. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Event sounds
Chuck Jones
Magic Lantern
47. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Casting
Tween(ing)
Casting
Check syntax
48. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Anticipation
Actions panel
Peter Jackson
Magic Lantern
49. Brings graphics into the library
T1
Import to library
Claymation
Flipbook
50. 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
James Cameron
Timing
Function
Pixar