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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Object
Pre-loader
Scene
Frame
2. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
James Cameron
Willis O'Brien
Library panel
Flipbook
3. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Components
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Emile Reynaud
4. 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
Trace
Norman Mclaren
Stop-Motion
Phenakistoscope
5. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Decrement Action
Object
Pixilation
Actions panel
6. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Cel
Graphic Symbols
Peter Jackson
Exaggeration
7. The process of changing one data type to another.
Animated graphic symbol
Casting
Winsor McCay
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
8. 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.
Components
Rotoscoping
Credits
UPA
9. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Tripod
Animated graphic symbol
24 frames
Pixar
10. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Instance
Onion Skin
Tripod
Pixar
11. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Thaumatrope
Number variable
Schlesinger Studios
Pixilation
12. 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.
Event Listener
Loader Component
Import to stage
Break apart
13. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
T1
Onion Skin
Audience
Bray Studios
14. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Art Clokey
Trace
String variable
Casting
15. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Props
James Cameron
Pixilation
Timing
16. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Event Listener
Willis O'Brien
Loop
Loader Component
17. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Actions panel
Instance
Squash and Stretch
Cel
18. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Willis O'Brien
Emile Reynaud
Ease In and Ease out
19. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Multiplane Camera
Import to library
J. Stuart Blackton
Actions panel
20. 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
Magic Lantern
Increment Action
Pixar
Timing
21. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Code snippets
Pixilation
Ease In and Ease out
Anticipation
22. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Parent-child relationship
Norman Mclaren
Peg Bar
UPA
23. 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.
Stream sound
Phenakistoscope
UPA
Event sounds
24. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Title
Object
Rotoscoping
UPA
25. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Loader Component
Edit
Parent-child relationship
Appeal
26. 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.
Otto Messmer
Props
Vector graphic
Code snippets
27. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
Object
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Phenakistoscope
28. King Kong
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29. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Break apart
Peter Jackson
Function
Max and Dave Fleischer
30. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Stream sound
Thaumatrope
24 frames
Art Clokey
31. 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.
Limited Animation
Classes
Flash Lite
Praxinoscope
32. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Trace
Library panel
Import to stage
Increment Action
33. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Anticipation
Theatre Optique
Ease In and Ease out
24 frames
34. 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
Crossbar
Phenakistoscope
Object
Timing
35. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Import to stage
Broadband
J. Stuart Blackton
Timeline
36. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Appeal
Tripod
Dynamic text field
Button symbol
37. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Data type
Pre-loader
Device Central
Classes
38. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Methods
Trace
Limited Animation
39. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Animation
Code snippets
Aardman Studios
Rotoscoping
40. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Emile Cohl
Pre-loader
Expressions
Keyframe
41. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Property
Movie clip symbol
Dynamic text field
Multiplane Camera
42. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Bray Studios
Pixilation
Norman Mclaren
Aardman Studios
43. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Bray Studios
Dynamic text field
Claymation
Hanna -Barbera
44. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
J. Stuart Blackton
Audience
Bandwidth Profiler
Flash Lite
45. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Casting
Schlesinger Studios
Publish
Actions panel
46. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Keyframe
Multiplane Camera
T1
Scene
47. Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
Max and Dave Fleischer
Methods
Appeal
48. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
UPA
Conditional Actions
Object
Broadband
49. 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
Tex Avery
Theatre Optique
Audience
Zoopraxiscope
50. 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.
T1
Components
Object
Pixar