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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Tex Avery
Max and Dave Fleischer
Keyframe
Exaggeration
2. 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
J. Stuart Blackton
Otto Messmer
Phenakistoscope
Aardman Studios
3. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Credits
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Vector graphic
Scene
4. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Script
DSL
Animation
J. Stuart Blackton
5. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Schlesinger Studios
Flash Lite
J. Stuart Blackton
Components
6. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Cue points
Graphic Symbols
Publish
Audience
7. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Dynamic text field
Flipbook
Bray Studios
DSL
8. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Bandwidth Profiler
Limited Animation
AddChild
Import to stage
9. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Persistance of Vision
Hanna -Barbera
AddChild
Ray Harryhausen
10. 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.
Decrement Action
Keyframe
Vector graphic
Winsor McCay
11. 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
Property
Bray Studios
Multiplane Camera
Emile Cohl
12. 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
T1
Crossbar
Persistance of Vision
13. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Library panel
Edit
Vector graphic
Instance
14. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Emile Reynaud
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Norman Mclaren
Graphic Symbols
15. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Aardman Studios
Expressions
Title
Decrement Action
16. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Hanna -Barbera
Loader Component
Background
Limited Animation
17. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Appeal
Title
Flipbook
18. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Casting
Thaumatrope
Dynamic text field
Bray Studios
19. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Increment Action
Credits
Event Listener
Magic Lantern
20. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Walt Disney
UPA
Decrement Action
Willis O'Brien
21. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
Movie clip symbol
Scene
Flash Lite
22. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Zoopraxiscope
Rotoscoping
Object
Conditional Actions
23. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Parent-child relationship
Stream sound
Object
24. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Library panel
Tim Burton
Audience
Pre-loader
25. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Zoopraxiscope
Import
Pixilation
Anticipation
26. Flattens out and elongate slightly
String variable
Squash and Stretch
Magic Lantern
Dynamic text field
27. Items - such as drawings and text - that are placed on the Stage and can be edited and manipulated. In ActionScript 3.0 - an instance of a class that inherits the attributes and functionality of a class.
Device Central
Flipbook
Scene
Object
28. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
UPA
Scene
Winsor McCay
Bray Studios
29. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Zoetrope
HTML alignment
Emile Reynaud
30. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
James Cameron
Graphic Symbols
Tripod
Expressions
31. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Zoetrope
Anticipation
Tex Avery
Animation
32. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Instance
AddChild
Code snippets
Loader Component
33. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
HTML alignment
Check syntax
Claymation
Bandwidth Profiler
34. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Timing
Zoopraxiscope
Emile Cohl
Peter Jackson
35. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Button symbol
Peter Jackson
J. Stuart Blackton
Nesting
36. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Cel
Expressions
Import
Decrement Action
37. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Broadband
Chuck Jones
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
38. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
Background
Phenakistoscope
Audience
39. Items - such as drawings and text - that are placed on the Stage and can be edited and manipulated. In ActionScript 3.0 - an instance of a class that inherits the attributes and functionality of a class.
Object
Hanna -Barbera
Import
James Cameron
40. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Cue points
Ray Harryhausen
Loop
Property
41. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Trace
Variable
Theatre Optique
42. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Frame
Background
James Cameron
String variable
43. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Property
Event sounds
T1
Increment Action
44. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Audience
Aardman Studios
Appeal
Keyframe
45. 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
Timing
Instance
Import
Nesting
46. Pre-developed movie clips that can quickly add functionality to a movie by dragging and dropping them from the Components panel to the stage. Commonly used for creating forms with boxes for entering user data.
Function
Otto Messmer
Components
Casting
47. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Nesting
Theatre Optique
Otto Messmer
Onion Skin
48. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Stream sound
Exaggeration
Magic Lantern
Tripod
49. 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
Parent-child relationship
Bray Studios
Check syntax
Button symbol
50. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Theatre Optique
Variable
Event sounds
Stop-Motion