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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts






2. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.






3. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.






4. 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






5. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.






6. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






7. 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






8. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document






9. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.






10. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






11. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page






12. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.






13. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.






14. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)






15. 1 second (default)






16. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.






17. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.






18. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.






19. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






20. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps






21. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.






22. Brings graphics into the library






23. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






24. 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.






25. Terminator 2






26. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.






27. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?






28. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






29. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.






30. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






31. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.






32. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.






33. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.






34. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files






35. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






36. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud






37. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood






38. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations






39. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.






40. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.






41. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






42. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.






43. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.






44. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






45. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.






46. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






47. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.






48. 1 second (default)






49. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.






50. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.