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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. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Aardman Studios
DSL
Limited Animation
T1
2. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Flash Lite
Frame
Dynamic text field
Exaggeration
3. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Variable
Flash Lite
Emile Reynaud
T1
4. Is mounted above a series of cells - each containing separate elements of the scene.. Because the cells are mounted at varying distances from the camera - if it pans or moves toward them - an effect of motion perspective is created. This was invented
Timing
Multiplane Camera
Pixilation
Art Clokey
5. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Peg Bar
Bray Studios
Ray Harryhausen
Max and Dave Fleischer
6. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Hanna -Barbera
Publish
Ray Harryhausen
7. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Norman Mclaren
Tex Avery
Persistance of Vision
Theatre Optique
8. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Break apart
Art Clokey
Willis O'Brien
Claymation
9. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Object
Tex Avery
Walt Disney
Function
10. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
J. Stuart Blackton
Pixilation
Peter Jackson
UPA
11. 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.
Components
Decrement Action
Phenakistoscope
Squash and Stretch
12. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Peg Bar
Expressions
Import to stage
Loader Component
13. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Chuck Jones
Ease In and Ease out
Animation
Pre-loader
14. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Thaumatrope
Animation
Publish
Pixar
15. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Peg Bar
Instance
AddChild
Decrement Action
16. Terminator 2
Device Central
Chuck Jones
James Cameron
Flash Lite
17. 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
Graphic Symbols
Timing
Flash Lite
Limited Animation
18. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Trace
Walt Disney
Frame
Pre-loader
19. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Break apart
Art Clokey
Tim Burton
20. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Willis O'Brien
Casting
Flipbook
HTML alignment
21. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Device Central
Norman Mclaren
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Max and Dave Fleischer
22. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
J. Stuart Blackton
Loop
Classes
Library panel
23. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Methods
Number variable
Props
Thaumatrope
24. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Onion Skin
Emile Cohl
UPA
Otto Messmer
25. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Schlesinger Studios
Import
Movie clip symbol
Code snippets
26. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Device Central
Expressions
Willis O'Brien
Peter Jackson
27. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Flipbook
Conditional Actions
Magic Lantern
Event Listener
28. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
AddChild
Anticipation
Background
Praxinoscope
29. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Vector graphic
Graphic Symbols
HTML alignment
Library panel
30. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Event Listener
Flash Lite
Import to stage
Trace
31. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Theatre Optique
Walt Disney
Tim Burton
Cue points
32. Graphic based on pixels
Actions panel
Thaumatrope
Peg Bar
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
33. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
AddChild
Praxinoscope
Claymation
Keyframe
34. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Anticipation
Script
Import to stage
Animation
35. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Property
Instance
Thaumatrope
Tim Burton
36. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Variable
Ray Harryhausen
Rotoscoping
37. 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.
Publish
Limited Animation
Event Listener
Nesting
38. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Event sounds
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Storyboard
Parent-child relationship
39. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Credits
Claymation
Peg Bar
Check syntax
40. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Code snippets
Check syntax
Exaggeration
Squash and Stretch
41. 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.
Timeline
Object
Max and Dave Fleischer
24 frames
42. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Import
Code snippets
Library panel
Tim Burton
43. 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.
Components
Peg Bar
Props
Stream sound
44. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Library panel
Pixar
Art Clokey
Function
45. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Animated graphic symbol
Schlesinger Studios
Data type
Title
46. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Anti-aliasing
Import
24 frames
Pre-loader
47. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Storyboard
Multiplane Camera
Stop-Motion
Willis O'Brien
48. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Loader Component
Schlesinger Studios
Increment Action
Conditional Actions
49. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
AddChild
Publish
Function
Actions panel
50. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
J. Stuart Blackton
Exaggeration
Pixar
Magic Lantern