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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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1. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pixar
Pre-loader
Animation
Check syntax
2. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Phenakistoscope
Tween(ing)
Hanna -Barbera
Parent-child relationship
3. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Willis O'Brien
Property
Graphic Symbols
Emile Reynaud
4. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Props
HTML alignment
James Cameron
Cel
5. 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
Decrement Action
Peg Bar
Publish
Zoopraxiscope
6. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Praxinoscope
Decrement Action
Multiplane Camera
Art Clokey
7. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Theatre Optique
DSL
James Cameron
String variable
8. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Ease In and Ease out
Willis O'Brien
James Cameron
24 frames
9. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Anticipation
Graphic Symbols
Property
Import to library
10. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Increment Action
Claymation
Library panel
Appeal
11. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Exaggeration
Appeal
Break apart
Otto Messmer
12. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Phenakistoscope
Tim Burton
Event Listener
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
13. 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.
Emile Cohl
Graphic Symbols
Limited Animation
Art Clokey
14. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Norman Mclaren
HTML alignment
Decrement Action
Object
15. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Schlesinger Studios
Timeline
Art Clokey
16. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Pixar
Vector graphic
Rotoscoping
Persistance of Vision
17. 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
Ray Harryhausen
Walt Disney
String variable
18. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Conditional Actions
Publish
Animation
Credits
19. The process of changing one data type to another.
Peter Jackson
Casting
Rotoscoping
Credits
20. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Actions panel
Animation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Tex Avery
21. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Scene
Otto Messmer
UPA
AddChild
22. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Event Listener
Phenakistoscope
Conditional Actions
Anti-aliasing
23. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Instance
Peter Jackson
Flipbook
24. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Praxinoscope
Timing
Hanna -Barbera
T1
25. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
DSL
Trace
Zoetrope
Pixar
26. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Multiplane Camera
Keyframe
Onion Skin
Timeline
27. King Kong
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28. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Peg Bar
Break apart
Trace
Flash Lite
29. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Nesting
Check syntax
Multiplane Camera
James Cameron
30. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Edit
Break apart
Number variable
Trace
31. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Button symbol
Nesting
Import to stage
Trace
32. 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.
Vector graphic
Code snippets
Components
Zoetrope
33. 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
Willis O'Brien
Phenakistoscope
Schlesinger Studios
Onion Skin
34. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Stop-Motion
Willis O'Brien
Tripod
Thaumatrope
35. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Instance
Winsor McCay
Title
Event sounds
36. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Timeline
Conditional Actions
Code snippets
Publish
37. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Stream sound
Classes
J. Stuart Blackton
Device Central
38. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Props
Loader Component
Winsor McCay
Decrement Action
39. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Increment Action
Anti-aliasing
Persistance of Vision
40. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Cue points
Hanna -Barbera
Magic Lantern
41. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Script
Appeal
Storyboard
Import to library
42. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Conditional Actions
Trace
AddChild
J. Stuart Blackton
43. Terminator 2
Peg Bar
Squash and Stretch
Stream sound
James Cameron
44. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Persistance of Vision
Trace
Flipbook
45. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Event Listener
Background
UPA
46. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Zoopraxiscope
Methods
T1
Praxinoscope
47. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Aardman Studios
Onion Skin
Code snippets
Check syntax
48. 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.
Bandwidth Profiler
Data type
Object
Willis O'Brien
49. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Emile Cohl
Chuck Jones
Onion Skin
Scene
50. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Willis O'Brien
Pre-loader
Otto Messmer
Norman Mclaren