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Animation Basics
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1. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
James Cameron
Animated graphic symbol
Audience
2. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Zoetrope
Function
Onion Skin
Emile Reynaud
3. 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
Cel
Button symbol
Animation
Timing
4. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Tex Avery
Audience
Conditional Actions
Instance
5. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Phenakistoscope
Publish
Broadband
Timing
6. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Zoopraxiscope
J. Stuart Blackton
Praxinoscope
Limited Animation
7. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Script
Schlesinger Studios
Persistance of Vision
8. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Stop-Motion
Peter Jackson
Winsor McCay
Ease In and Ease out
9. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Bray Studios
Storyboard
Magic Lantern
10. 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.
Ease In and Ease out
Methods
Walt Disney
Break apart
11. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Frame
Ray Harryhausen
Cel
Theatre Optique
12. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Scene
Code snippets
Bray Studios
Exaggeration
13. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Magic Lantern
Import to library
Phenakistoscope
Chuck Jones
14. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Anticipation
Event Listener
Variable
Pre-loader
15. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
J. Stuart Blackton
Timing
Keyframe
String variable
16. Brings graphics into the library
Components
Library panel
Publish
Import to library
17. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Function
Import
Movie clip symbol
DSL
18. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Anti-aliasing
Instance
Appeal
String variable
19. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Actions panel
Flash Lite
Appeal
AddChild
20. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Zoopraxiscope
Peg Bar
Dynamic text field
Movie clip symbol
21. 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.
Event Listener
Movie clip symbol
Vector graphic
Onion Skin
22. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Import to stage
Flipbook
Squash and Stretch
23. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Publish
Graphic Symbols
Methods
24. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Import to stage
Stream sound
Event Listener
Cue points
25. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Property
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Tween(ing)
26. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Movie clip symbol
Pre-loader
Variable
Stop-Motion
27. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
Theatre Optique
Number variable
Multiplane Camera
28. 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.
Credits
UPA
Tween(ing)
Broadband
29. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Cue points
DSL
Pixilation
T1
30. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Timeline
Import to library
Increment Action
Button symbol
31. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Tim Burton
Instance
Bray Studios
Import
32. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Property
Storyboard
Loader Component
Magic Lantern
33. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Audience
Otto Messmer
Credits
Import to stage
34. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Code snippets
James Cameron
Dynamic text field
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Pre-loader
Movie clip symbol
Tripod
Flipbook
36. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Library panel
Frame
Peg Bar
Peter Jackson
37. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Decrement Action
Emile Reynaud
Flipbook
38. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Magic Lantern
Tex Avery
Increment Action
Rotoscoping
39. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Import to library
Flash Lite
Timing
Actions panel
40. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Object
Background
Title
41. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
DSL
Function
Ease In and Ease out
James Cameron
42. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Conditional Actions
Claymation
Theatre Optique
Audience
43. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Publish
Onion Skin
Theatre Optique
44. 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.
Event sounds
Walt Disney
Timeline
Pixilation
45. 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
Check syntax
Zoopraxiscope
Casting
Pre-loader
46. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Methods
Tex Avery
Increment Action
47. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Stream sound
Audience
Persistance of Vision
48. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Walt Disney
Background
Stream sound
Otto Messmer
49. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Tween(ing)
Willis O'Brien
T1
50. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Tim Burton
Import to library
Import
Peter Jackson