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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. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Bandwidth Profiler
Function
Chuck Jones
Check syntax
2. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Credits
Pixar
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
DSL
3. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Break apart
Squash and Stretch
Cue points
J. Stuart Blackton
4. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Event Listener
Decrement Action
Zoopraxiscope
Winsor McCay
5. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Winsor McCay
Squash and Stretch
Storyboard
T1
6. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Import to library
Instance
Nesting
Zoetrope
7. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Schlesinger Studios
Art Clokey
Onion Skin
Ease In and Ease out
8. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Frame
Script
Object
Cel
9. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Animation
Instance
Library panel
Code snippets
10. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Methods
Movie clip symbol
Exaggeration
Animated graphic symbol
11. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Animation
Otto Messmer
Ray Harryhausen
Increment Action
12. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Device Central
Ray Harryhausen
Instance
13. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Limited Animation
Props
Crossbar
Loader Component
14. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Ray Harryhausen
Publish
Stop-Motion
Schlesinger Studios
15. 1 second (default)
Storyboard
Import to library
Animation
24 frames
16. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Persistance of Vision
Otto Messmer
Pixilation
Zoetrope
17. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Nesting
Code snippets
Squash and Stretch
18. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Anti-aliasing
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Graphic Symbols
19. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Thaumatrope
Zoopraxiscope
T1
J. Stuart Blackton
20. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Exaggeration
Pixar
Property
Number variable
21. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Appeal
Actions panel
Vector graphic
22. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Schlesinger Studios
Pre-loader
Variable
Bandwidth Profiler
23. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Otto Messmer
Variable
Property
Scene
24. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Cue points
HTML alignment
Script
Scene
25. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Event sounds
Parent-child relationship
Code snippets
Background
26. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Check syntax
Device Central
Schlesinger Studios
T1
27. Terminator 2
Tim Burton
Background
Tween(ing)
James Cameron
28. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Button symbol
Norman Mclaren
DSL
24 frames
29. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Import to stage
Peg Bar
Bandwidth Profiler
Emile Cohl
30. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Instance
Casting
Aardman Studios
Credits
31. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Anti-aliasing
Timeline
Storyboard
Walt Disney
32. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Animated graphic symbol
Tween(ing)
Ray Harryhausen
Anticipation
33. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Thaumatrope
Emile Reynaud
Bray Studios
Theatre Optique
34. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Winsor McCay
Broadband
DSL
Data type
35. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Function
HTML alignment
Appeal
Trace
36. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Break apart
Script
Willis O'Brien
37. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Magic Lantern
Timeline
Anticipation
38. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Loop
Ease In and Ease out
Broadband
Import
39. 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
Event sounds
Hanna -Barbera
Zoopraxiscope
Actions panel
40. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Import to stage
Emile Reynaud
James Cameron
Check syntax
41. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Loader Component
UPA
Props
Background
42. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Norman Mclaren
Audience
Function
Claymation
43. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Object
Components
Zoetrope
Hanna -Barbera
44. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Classes
Property
Function
HTML alignment
45. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Persistance of Vision
Frame
Squash and Stretch
46. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Willis O'Brien
Schlesinger Studios
Magic Lantern
Audience
47. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Library panel
Ease In and Ease out
String variable
Graphic Symbols
48. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Tripod
Chuck Jones
Thaumatrope
Trace
49. Graphic based on pixels
Emile Cohl
Parent-child relationship
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
50. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Object
Library panel
Function
Trace