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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. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Storyboard
Keyframe
Button symbol
Ray Harryhausen
2. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Number variable
UPA
Magic Lantern
3. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Pixilation
Methods
Tex Avery
Animated graphic symbol
4. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Button symbol
Anticipation
Instance
Tween(ing)
5. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Graphic Symbols
Methods
Casting
Zoetrope
6. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Zoetrope
Chuck Jones
Scene
Ease In and Ease out
7. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
J. Stuart Blackton
Title
Squash and Stretch
Pixilation
8. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Norman Mclaren
Cue points
Willis O'Brien
Tim Burton
9. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Broadband
J. Stuart Blackton
Pre-loader
Squash and Stretch
10. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Methods
Movie clip symbol
Graphic Symbols
Animation
11. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Animation
Bandwidth Profiler
Tex Avery
Movie clip symbol
12. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Thaumatrope
Emile Reynaud
Variable
13. 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
Publish
Zoopraxiscope
Decrement Action
Exaggeration
14. 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
Expressions
Appeal
Methods
15. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Edit
Claymation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Hanna -Barbera
16. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Cel
Edit
Norman Mclaren
Timeline
17. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Praxinoscope
HTML alignment
Import
Number variable
18. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Break apart
Magic Lantern
Peter Jackson
Broadband
19. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Pixar
Code snippets
Components
Crossbar
20. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Bray Studios
Art Clokey
Background
Import to stage
21. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Background
Conditional Actions
Chuck Jones
Peg Bar
22. 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
Persistance of Vision
Emile Cohl
Stop-Motion
23. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Flash Lite
Cue points
Instance
Bray Studios
24. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Zoopraxiscope
Tex Avery
Cue points
Bandwidth Profiler
25. 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
Animated graphic symbol
Zoopraxiscope
J. Stuart Blackton
Vector graphic
26. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Crossbar
AddChild
Loop
Variable
27. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Event Listener
HTML alignment
Dynamic text field
Object
28. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Tween(ing)
Script
Hanna -Barbera
AddChild
29. 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
Flash Lite
Property
Claymation
30. 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
Multiplane Camera
Stop-Motion
Timing
Appeal
31. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Device Central
T1
Movie clip symbol
Property
32. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
HTML alignment
Instance
UPA
Broadband
33. Terminator 2
Button symbol
Number variable
Loader Component
James Cameron
34. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
HTML alignment
Data type
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Art Clokey
35. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Multiplane Camera
Bray Studios
Components
36. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Broadband
Emile Reynaud
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Flash Lite
37. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Ray Harryhausen
Code snippets
Frame
Event sounds
38. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Emile Cohl
Peg Bar
UPA
Break apart
39. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Stream sound
Loop
Import
Flipbook
40. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Button symbol
Decrement Action
Trace
Script
41. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Onion Skin
Tim Burton
Chuck Jones
Keyframe
42. 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.
Components
Stream sound
HTML alignment
Claymation
43. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Expressions
Tripod
Edit
44. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Limited Animation
Classes
Object
String variable
45. The process of changing one data type to another.
Function
Casting
Publish
Theatre Optique
46. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Exaggeration
Loop
Parent-child relationship
47. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Classes
Vector graphic
Winsor McCay
Anti-aliasing
48. Brings graphics into the library
Background
Import to library
Import
Flipbook
49. Graphic based on pixels
Persistance of Vision
Pixilation
Rotoscoping
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
50. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Rotoscoping
Bray Studios
Background
Decrement Action