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Animation Basics
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1. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Event Listener
Cue points
Ease In and Ease out
Trace
2. 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.
Storyboard
Willis O'Brien
Event sounds
Exaggeration
3. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Storyboard
Credits
Exaggeration
4. 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.
Import to stage
Aardman Studios
Broadband
Components
5. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Praxinoscope
Cue points
Classes
6. 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
T1
T1
Zoopraxiscope
Bray Studios
7. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
Art Clokey
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Methods
8. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Pixilation
Limited Animation
Peg Bar
Norman Mclaren
9. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Property
Hanna -Barbera
Aardman Studios
Tex Avery
10. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
HTML alignment
Dynamic text field
Import to stage
Theatre Optique
11. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Pixar
Pixar
Praxinoscope
Exaggeration
12. Fantasmagorie
Emile Cohl
Import
Claymation
James Cameron
13. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Keyframe
Methods
Parent-child relationship
Rotoscoping
14. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Squash and Stretch
Background
Tripod
Publish
15. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Flipbook
Theatre Optique
Methods
Norman Mclaren
16. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Credits
Keyframe
Storyboard
17. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Limited Animation
Code snippets
Device Central
Button symbol
18. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Animation
Decrement Action
Persistance of Vision
Expressions
19. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Squash and Stretch
Props
Number variable
Button symbol
20. Created rotoscoping - The Tantalizing Fly (Koko the Clown) - Dizzy Dishes - Minnie the Moocher(Betty Boop) - Popeye (Popeye Meets Sinbad) - Superman series - Gulliver's Travels (first animated feature not from Disney)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Tim Burton
Props
Variable
21. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Cel
Stream sound
Conditional Actions
Edit
22. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Zoetrope
Tripod
Parent-child relationship
J. Stuart Blackton
23. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
String variable
Classes
Pixar
Dynamic text field
24. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Multiplane Camera
Flipbook
Animated graphic symbol
Data type
25. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Credits
Loader Component
Limited Animation
Multiplane Camera
26. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Audience
Dynamic text field
Title
27. 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
Timing
Pre-loader
Claymation
Thaumatrope
28. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Ray Harryhausen
Anticipation
Conditional Actions
Scene
29. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Emile Reynaud
Claymation
Import to library
Anticipation
30. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Theatre Optique
Tween(ing)
Appeal
HTML alignment
31. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Props
Keyframe
Import to library
String variable
32. 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.
Flipbook
Components
Emile Cohl
Props
33. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
Storyboard
Import to stage
Expressions
34. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Claymation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Schlesinger Studios
Persistance of Vision
35. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Library panel
Code snippets
Chuck Jones
Onion Skin
36. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Tex Avery
Vector graphic
Praxinoscope
Claymation
37. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Thaumatrope
Winsor McCay
Break apart
Object
38. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Movie clip symbol
James Cameron
Rotoscoping
Claymation
39. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Vector graphic
String variable
Dynamic text field
Casting
40. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Emile Cohl
Otto Messmer
Frame
UPA
41. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Background
Components
Magic Lantern
Anti-aliasing
42. Scenery hung at back of stage
Tex Avery
Classes
Animation
Background
43. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Cue points
Animated graphic symbol
Number variable
J. Stuart Blackton
44. Fantasmagorie
Bandwidth Profiler
Script
Chuck Jones
Emile Cohl
45. 1 second (default)
Flipbook
Background
24 frames
Limited Animation
46. Graphic based on pixels
Timeline
Tex Avery
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Ease In and Ease out
47. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Stream sound
Pixar
Schlesinger Studios
Decrement Action
48. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Background
J. Stuart Blackton
Max and Dave Fleischer
Increment Action
49. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Publish
Trace
Max and Dave Fleischer
50. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Title
Event Listener
J. Stuart Blackton
Tex Avery