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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)






2. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






3. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.






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






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






6. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.






7. 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.






8. Fantasmagorie






9. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones






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






11. 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






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






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






14. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.






15. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.






16. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.






17. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)






18. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.






19. Fantasmagorie






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.






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






26. A sound that plays independently of the Timeline. The sound starts in the keyframe to which it is added - but it can continue playing even after a movie ends. Must download completely before it begins playing.






27. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






28. Flattens out and elongate slightly






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






30. The process of changing one data type to another.






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






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






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






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






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






36. The name of a work of art or movie etc.






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






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






39. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel






40. 1 second (default)






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






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






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






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






45. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it






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






47. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page






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






49. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






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