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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Chuck Jones
AddChild
Parent-child relationship
Ray Harryhausen
2. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Loader Component
Thaumatrope
Tween(ing)
Tim Burton
3. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Instance
Stop-Motion
Rotoscoping
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
4. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Willis O'Brien
Walt Disney
T1
Property
5. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Anti-aliasing
Exaggeration
Tween(ing)
Winsor McCay
6. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
T1
Stop-Motion
Dynamic text field
Credits
7. 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.
Winsor McCay
Persistance of Vision
Components
Cel
8. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Aardman Studios
Phenakistoscope
Squash and Stretch
9. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Limited Animation
Anticipation
Actions panel
Import
10. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Tim Burton
Persistance of Vision
Persistance of Vision
Hanna -Barbera
11. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Thaumatrope
Frame
Tim Burton
Casting
12. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Peg Bar
Zoetrope
Scene
Rotoscoping
13. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Animated graphic symbol
Stream sound
Theatre Optique
Import to library
14. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Import to stage
Peter Jackson
Props
Flipbook
15. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Credits
Timeline
Phenakistoscope
UPA
16. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Timeline
Movie clip symbol
DSL
17. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
HTML alignment
Background
Tex Avery
Vector graphic
18. The process of changing one data type to another.
Pixilation
Pixilation
Casting
Nesting
19. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Conditional Actions
Anticipation
Loader Component
Methods
20. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
DSL
Graphic Symbols
Rotoscoping
Persistance of Vision
21. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Break apart
J. Stuart Blackton
Casting
Decrement Action
22. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Peg Bar
Praxinoscope
UPA
Pixar
23. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Import to library
Library panel
Button symbol
Credits
24. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Expressions
Graphic Symbols
Movie clip symbol
Storyboard
25. 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.
Stream sound
Loop
Property
Graphic Symbols
26. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Praxinoscope
Pixilation
Theatre Optique
27. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
HTML alignment
Check syntax
Expressions
Code snippets
28. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Expressions
Exaggeration
Stream sound
Aardman Studios
29. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Stop-Motion
Trace
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Check syntax
30. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Persistance of Vision
AddChild
Peter Jackson
String variable
31. 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
Theatre Optique
DSL
Actions panel
32. 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.
Background
Animation
Stream sound
Chuck Jones
33. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Decrement Action
Tripod
Animated graphic symbol
Thaumatrope
34. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Emile Cohl
HTML alignment
Audience
Appeal
35. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Loop
Conditional Actions
Import
Otto Messmer
36. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Vector graphic
Peg Bar
Increment Action
37. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Pixilation
Code snippets
Pixar
Edit
38. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Instance
Pre-loader
Exaggeration
Button symbol
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
Zoopraxiscope
DSL
Cue points
Animated graphic symbol
40. 1 second (default)
Squash and Stretch
24 frames
Props
Flash Lite
41. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Property
Hanna -Barbera
Magic Lantern
Peg Bar
42. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Import
Norman Mclaren
Exaggeration
Crossbar
43. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Stream sound
Check syntax
Tex Avery
Casting
44. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
J. Stuart Blackton
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Title
45. 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
Phenakistoscope
Loop
Zoopraxiscope
Multiplane Camera
46. 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
Thaumatrope
Scene
AddChild
47. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
AddChild
Exaggeration
Data type
Conditional Actions
48. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Magic Lantern
Aardman Studios
Max and Dave Fleischer
Peter Jackson
49. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Storyboard
Winsor McCay
Break apart
Bray Studios
50. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
24 frames
Import to stage
Data type
Stream sound