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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. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Art Clokey
J. Stuart Blackton
Property
Aardman Studios
2. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Aardman Studios
Audience
Phenakistoscope
24 frames
3. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Emile Reynaud
Expressions
Pixilation
Expressions
4. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Decrement Action
Increment Action
24 frames
5. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Function
Emile Reynaud
Theatre Optique
Animation
6. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
James Cameron
Art Clokey
Device Central
Number variable
7. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Code snippets
Conditional Actions
J. Stuart Blackton
Thaumatrope
8. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Code snippets
Norman Mclaren
Flash Lite
Animated graphic symbol
9. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
James Cameron
Norman Mclaren
Nesting
Script
10. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Data type
Flash Lite
Tripod
Thaumatrope
11. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Components
Magic Lantern
Variable
Theatre Optique
12. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Crossbar
Bray Studios
Multiplane Camera
Event Listener
13. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Conditional Actions
Publish
Casting
Exaggeration
14. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Anticipation
UPA
Ray Harryhausen
Property
15. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Break apart
Hanna -Barbera
Methods
Willis O'Brien
16. 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
Aardman Studios
Flipbook
Components
17. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Animated graphic symbol
Device Central
Persistance of Vision
Emile Reynaud
18. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Multiplane Camera
Flash Lite
Data type
Cue points
19. 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
Movie clip symbol
Event sounds
Emile Reynaud
20. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Animation
Phenakistoscope
Instance
Norman Mclaren
21. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Edit
Walt Disney
Praxinoscope
Zoopraxiscope
22. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Classes
Background
Credits
23. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
HTML alignment
Check syntax
Max and Dave Fleischer
Nesting
24. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Import to library
Peg Bar
Movie clip symbol
Edit
25. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Aardman Studios
Tex Avery
Otto Messmer
Dynamic text field
26. King Kong
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27. A type of data transmission - such as DSL and cable - in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit more information at the same time.
Exaggeration
Broadband
Aardman Studios
Import
28. 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
Increment Action
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Title
29. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Claymation
24 frames
Animation
Peg Bar
30. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
DSL
Animation
Break apart
Classes
31. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Rotoscoping
Components
Methods
32. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Hanna -Barbera
Methods
String variable
33. 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.
Onion Skin
Break apart
Library panel
Storyboard
34. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Anticipation
Tween(ing)
Onion Skin
DSL
35. 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)
Hanna -Barbera
Import to stage
Broadband
Max and Dave Fleischer
36. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Anti-aliasing
Function
Winsor McCay
Classes
37. The process of changing one data type to another.
Variable
Library panel
Credits
Casting
38. 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
Tex Avery
Peter Jackson
Tripod
Multiplane Camera
39. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Willis O'Brien
Praxinoscope
Bray Studios
Zoopraxiscope
40. 1 second (default)
Graphic Symbols
Thaumatrope
24 frames
Timing
41. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Aardman Studios
Squash and Stretch
Edit
Conditional Actions
42. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Walt Disney
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Onion Skin
Tex Avery
43. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Emile Reynaud
Pre-loader
Function
Loader Component
44. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Tex Avery
Expressions
Graphic Symbols
Code snippets
45. A sound that is tied to the Timeline. No matter its length - a streaming sound stops at the end of the movie. Can start palying as they download.
Stream sound
Chuck Jones
Event sounds
Ease In and Ease out
46. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Actions panel
Zoetrope
Credits
Thaumatrope
47. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
AddChild
Stream sound
J. Stuart Blackton
48. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Zoetrope
Graphic Symbols
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Button symbol
49. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Animation
Scene
Bray Studios
50. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Components
Stop-Motion
Conditional Actions
Background