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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. 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.
Parent-child relationship
Edit
Nesting
Vector graphic
2. 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
Ray Harryhausen
24 frames
Stream sound
3. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Zoopraxiscope
Flash Lite
Onion Skin
Nesting
4. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Winsor McCay
Onion Skin
Keyframe
5. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
Button symbol
Cue points
Rotoscoping
6. 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.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Casting
Vector graphic
Break apart
7. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
DSL
Zoetrope
AddChild
Hanna -Barbera
8. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Broadband
Variable
Script
24 frames
9. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Cel
Loader Component
Nesting
Tim Burton
10. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Bandwidth Profiler
Script
Peter Jackson
11. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Event Listener
Code snippets
Code snippets
Loader Component
12. Fantasmagorie
Conditional Actions
HTML alignment
Loader Component
Emile Cohl
13. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Script
Hanna -Barbera
Theatre Optique
Movie clip symbol
14. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Magic Lantern
Theatre Optique
Property
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
15. Graphic based on pixels
Components
Expressions
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Otto Messmer
16. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Rotoscoping
Zoopraxiscope
Pixar
Tween(ing)
17. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Flipbook
Background
Peter Jackson
Library panel
18. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
String variable
Decrement Action
Instance
Edit
19. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Animation
Scene
Emile Cohl
Loader Component
20. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Parent-child relationship
Event Listener
Claymation
Pixilation
21. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Peter Jackson
Increment Action
Edit
Props
22. 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.
24 frames
Otto Messmer
Function
Broadband
23. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Art Clokey
Import to stage
Flash Lite
Persistance of Vision
24. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Limited Animation
Nesting
Persistance of Vision
Magic Lantern
25. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Number variable
Event Listener
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Broadband
26. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Background
Check syntax
Exaggeration
Otto Messmer
27. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
T1
Edit
Stream sound
Ease In and Ease out
28. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Rotoscoping
Aardman Studios
Onion Skin
Function
29. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Frame
Art Clokey
Max and Dave Fleischer
Rotoscoping
30. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Emile Cohl
Nesting
Components
Pre-loader
31. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Frame
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Crossbar
Emile Reynaud
32. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Appeal
Squash and Stretch
Limited Animation
33. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Ease In and Ease out
Device Central
Walt Disney
Cel
34. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Dynamic text field
Willis O'Brien
Methods
Hanna -Barbera
35. 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.
Broadband
Event Listener
Animation
Peter Jackson
36. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Background
Animated graphic symbol
Peg Bar
Anti-aliasing
37. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
AddChild
Tim Burton
Zoetrope
Thaumatrope
38. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Button symbol
Library panel
Emile Reynaud
39. A description of the hierarchical relationship that develops between nested symbols - especially nested movie clip symbols. When you insert a movie clip inside another movie clip - the inserted clip is considered the child and the original clip is th
Audience
Frame
Ray Harryhausen
Parent-child relationship
40. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Expressions
Winsor McCay
Button symbol
Multiplane Camera
41. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Tex Avery
Norman Mclaren
Praxinoscope
Methods
42. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Actions panel
Classes
Frame
Break apart
43. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Break apart
Tim Burton
UPA
Timeline
44. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Instance
Bray Studios
HTML alignment
Data type
45. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
DSL
Function
Flash Lite
Phenakistoscope
46. 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.
Bandwidth Profiler
Walt Disney
DSL
Limited Animation
47. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
J. Stuart Blackton
Increment Action
Hanna -Barbera
Cue points
48. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Keyframe
Praxinoscope
Tim Burton
Import to library
49. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Ray Harryhausen
Peg Bar
Increment Action
Theatre Optique
50. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Phenakistoscope
AddChild
Thaumatrope
Tween(ing)