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Animation Basics
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1. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
HTML alignment
Anti-aliasing
Number variable
Import
2. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Zoetrope
Chuck Jones
Decrement Action
Components
3. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Appeal
Keyframe
Multiplane Camera
Credits
4. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Methods
Trace
Timing
AddChild
5. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Parent-child relationship
Peg Bar
Peter Jackson
Data type
6. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Data type
Willis O'Brien
Max and Dave Fleischer
Bandwidth Profiler
7. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Frame
Loader Component
Magic Lantern
HTML alignment
8. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Data type
Crossbar
Movie clip symbol
Timeline
9. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Loop
Check syntax
Data type
Title
10. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Code snippets
Emile Reynaud
Hanna -Barbera
Dynamic text field
11. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Dynamic text field
Import to stage
Credits
Exaggeration
12. Brings graphics into the library
Animation
Import to library
Schlesinger Studios
Flash Lite
13. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Props
Zoetrope
Crossbar
Tween(ing)
14. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Number variable
Flash Lite
HTML alignment
15. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Zoetrope
Event sounds
Flash Lite
Graphic Symbols
16. Scenery hung at back of stage
Peg Bar
Property
Art Clokey
Background
17. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
DSL
J. Stuart Blackton
Peter Jackson
Claymation
18. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Loader Component
Exaggeration
Praxinoscope
Flipbook
19. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Background
Device Central
Decrement Action
20. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Walt Disney
Trace
Ease In and Ease out
21. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Theatre Optique
Claymation
Magic Lantern
Flipbook
22. 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)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Script
Background
UPA
23. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Cue points
Script
Import to stage
Magic Lantern
24. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Norman Mclaren
Code snippets
Phenakistoscope
Broadband
25. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Schlesinger Studios
Timing
Props
Background
26. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
String variable
Classes
Import to library
Animated graphic symbol
27. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Decrement Action
Pixilation
Chuck Jones
Trace
28. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Graphic Symbols
Peg Bar
Limited Animation
Ease In and Ease out
29. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Variable
Instance
Tim Burton
30. 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)
Appeal
Max and Dave Fleischer
Nesting
Data type
31. 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
String variable
Instance
Ray Harryhausen
32. The process of changing one data type to another.
Exaggeration
Stream sound
Instance
Casting
33. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Script
Ray Harryhausen
Stop-Motion
Timeline
34. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Decrement Action
Claymation
Thaumatrope
Aardman Studios
35. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Break apart
Graphic Symbols
Art Clokey
36. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Ease In and Ease out
Onion Skin
J. Stuart Blackton
AddChild
37. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Event sounds
Variable
Decrement Action
Crossbar
38. Fantasmagorie
Emile Cohl
Code snippets
Theatre Optique
Zoopraxiscope
39. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Property
J. Stuart Blackton
Emile Reynaud
40. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Tripod
Data type
Rotoscoping
Scene
41. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Walt Disney
Art Clokey
Cel
Tween(ing)
42. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Credits
UPA
Cue points
43. 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
Import to library
DSL
Multiplane Camera
String variable
44. 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.
Willis O'Brien
Stream sound
24 frames
Flipbook
45. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Dynamic text field
Schlesinger Studios
Data type
Import
46. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Loop
Praxinoscope
T1
Scene
47. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Import
Cue points
String variable
Flipbook
48. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Peter Jackson
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Classes
Import to stage
49. 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.
Onion Skin
Import to library
Limited Animation
Crossbar
50. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Movie clip symbol
UPA
Walt Disney
Audience