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Animation Basics
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1. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Trace
Cel
Graphic Symbols
Frame
2. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Thaumatrope
String variable
Movie clip symbol
Squash and Stretch
3. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Casting
T1
Event sounds
Praxinoscope
4. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Magic Lantern
24 frames
Keyframe
Methods
5. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Dynamic text field
Cel
Zoetrope
Persistance of Vision
6. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Timing
Phenakistoscope
Limited Animation
7. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Timeline
Edit
AddChild
Peter Jackson
8. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
Hanna -Barbera
Otto Messmer
Peg Bar
9. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Peg Bar
Animation
Praxinoscope
10. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Check syntax
Tim Burton
Button symbol
Parent-child relationship
11. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Loop
Tween(ing)
Edit
AddChild
12. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Chuck Jones
Import
J. Stuart Blackton
13. Graphic based on pixels
Check syntax
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Rotoscoping
Movie clip symbol
14. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Data type
Norman Mclaren
Flash Lite
Credits
15. Terminator 2
Ray Harryhausen
James Cameron
Onion Skin
Expressions
16. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Dynamic text field
Scene
Tex Avery
Stream sound
17. The process of changing one data type to another.
Casting
Classes
Scene
Flipbook
18. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Check syntax
Instance
Variable
Script
19. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Frame
Casting
Loop
Animation
20. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Otto Messmer
Variable
Methods
21. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Ease In and Ease out
Thaumatrope
Device Central
AddChild
22. 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.
Persistance of Vision
Expressions
Property
Limited Animation
23. The process of breaking apart text to place each character in a separate text block. The process of separating groups - instances - and bitmaps into ungrouped - of editable elements.
AddChild
Stop-Motion
Loader Component
Break apart
24. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Rotoscoping
Props
Norman Mclaren
Check syntax
25. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Peter Jackson
Code snippets
Stream sound
Appeal
26. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Persistance of Vision
Property
Import to library
Animation
27. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Cue points
Pre-loader
Casting
28. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Conditional Actions
Scene
Squash and Stretch
Appeal
29. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Hanna -Barbera
Ease In and Ease out
Zoetrope
Library panel
30. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Walt Disney
Cue points
Background
Device Central
31. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Decrement Action
Script
Emile Cohl
Theatre Optique
32. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Library panel
Peg Bar
Limited Animation
AddChild
33. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Timing
Phenakistoscope
UPA
Anti-aliasing
34. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Aardman Studios
HTML alignment
Peg Bar
Ease In and Ease out
35. 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.
Edit
Object
Loop
Winsor McCay
36. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Walt Disney
Import to library
Cue points
Otto Messmer
37. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Stop-Motion
Script
Scene
String variable
38. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Rotoscoping
Function
Publish
Onion Skin
39. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Stream sound
Pre-loader
Hanna -Barbera
40. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Zoopraxiscope
Instance
Tim Burton
Graphic Symbols
41. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Timeline
Claymation
Praxinoscope
Squash and Stretch
42. 1 second (default)
Movie clip symbol
Break apart
24 frames
Frame
43. Terminator 2
Pixilation
Frame
James Cameron
Zoetrope
44. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Instance
Walt Disney
Variable
Trace
45. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Chuck Jones
Animation
Tex Avery
Aardman Studios
46. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Otto Messmer
Trace
Bray Studios
Edit
47. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Cue points
Decrement Action
Ease In and Ease out
48. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Code snippets
Audience
Pre-loader
Import to library
49. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Event Listener
Parent-child relationship
Title
Timing
50. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Ray Harryhausen
Zoetrope
Claymation