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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Trace
Storyboard
Appeal
Tim Burton
2. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Data type
Stream sound
DSL
J. Stuart Blackton
3. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Nesting
Stream sound
Chuck Jones
Button symbol
4. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Background
Storyboard
String variable
Stop-Motion
5. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
T1
Code snippets
Exaggeration
Loader Component
6. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Check syntax
Decrement Action
Dynamic text field
Pixilation
7. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Conditional Actions
Pre-loader
Emile Cohl
Event sounds
8. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Function
Event Listener
Title
9. Graphic based on pixels
Zoopraxiscope
Scene
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Multiplane Camera
10. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Peg Bar
Stop-Motion
Anticipation
11. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Flash Lite
Norman Mclaren
Library panel
Instance
12. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Parent-child relationship
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Keyframe
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
13. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Conditional Actions
Ease In and Ease out
Decrement Action
Credits
14. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Button symbol
Object
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Loop
15. 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
DSL
Flipbook
Thaumatrope
16. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Broadband
Trace
Squash and Stretch
Background
17. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Props
Tween(ing)
18. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Instance
Object
Decrement Action
Hanna -Barbera
19. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Classes
Cel
UPA
20. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Aardman Studios
Animation
Emile Cohl
Persistance of Vision
21. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Components
Methods
Button symbol
Thaumatrope
22. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Otto Messmer
Persistance of Vision
Thaumatrope
Object
23. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Object
Stop-Motion
Cue points
Function
24. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Squash and Stretch
Movie clip symbol
Loader Component
Phenakistoscope
25. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Flash Lite
Edit
Ease In and Ease out
26. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Components
J. Stuart Blackton
Keyframe
Casting
27. 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
Graphic Symbols
Anti-aliasing
Pixilation
28. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
AddChild
Winsor McCay
Tim Burton
Device Central
29. 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
Pixar
Increment Action
Event sounds
Phenakistoscope
30. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Bray Studios
Scene
Data type
31. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Tripod
T1
Timeline
Stream sound
32. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Tween(ing)
DSL
Classes
Frame
33. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Trace
Increment Action
Chuck Jones
Ray Harryhausen
34. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Components
Bray Studios
Graphic Symbols
Edit
35. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Pixar
Tex Avery
Edit
AddChild
36. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Vector graphic
Walt Disney
Otto Messmer
Multiplane Camera
37. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Function
Broadband
Break apart
Variable
38. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Movie clip symbol
Magic Lantern
Schlesinger Studios
39. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Anti-aliasing
Loop
Norman Mclaren
Audience
40. Scenery hung at back of stage
Bray Studios
Background
Components
Tween(ing)
41. 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
Broadband
Audience
Button symbol
Parent-child relationship
42. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Edit
T1
Ease In and Ease out
Bray Studios
43. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Crossbar
Expressions
Art Clokey
Import to stage
44. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Bray Studios
Classes
Components
Crossbar
45. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Casting
Loader Component
Vector graphic
46. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
HTML alignment
Praxinoscope
Components
Flash Lite
47. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Phenakistoscope
Scene
T1
Flipbook
48. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Library panel
Rotoscoping
Frame
Audience
49. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Animated graphic symbol
Device Central
Vector graphic
50. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Winsor McCay
Check syntax
Ray Harryhausen
Event sounds