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Animation Basics
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it-skills
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Praxinoscope
Dynamic text field
Crossbar
Props
2. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Scene
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Flash Lite
3. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Praxinoscope
Decrement Action
Pixilation
Max and Dave Fleischer
4. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Stream sound
Appeal
Tex Avery
Vector graphic
5. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
T1
Rotoscoping
Storyboard
Methods
6. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Frame
Loader Component
Loader Component
7. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Code snippets
Credits
Decrement Action
Anti-aliasing
8. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Timing
Increment Action
Tripod
Ray Harryhausen
9. 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
Tex Avery
HTML alignment
Number variable
10. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Tripod
DSL
AddChild
Cel
11. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Praxinoscope
DSL
Frame
Check syntax
12. 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
Trace
Phenakistoscope
Instance
Device Central
13. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
DSL
Scene
Magic Lantern
Winsor McCay
14. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Zoetrope
Art Clokey
AddChild
Bray Studios
15. 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)
Import to stage
Loader Component
Max and Dave Fleischer
Library panel
16. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Pixar
Cel
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Zoetrope
17. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Cue points
Library panel
Zoetrope
UPA
18. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Exaggeration
HTML alignment
DSL
19. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Crossbar
Pre-loader
Exaggeration
Edit
20. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
James Cameron
UPA
Title
Import
21. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Conditional Actions
24 frames
Winsor McCay
Storyboard
22. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Emile Reynaud
Squash and Stretch
Flash Lite
Appeal
23. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Increment Action
Expressions
Tim Burton
UPA
24. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Theatre Optique
Chuck Jones
24 frames
String variable
25. 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.
James Cameron
J. Stuart Blackton
Cue points
Event sounds
26. King Kong
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27. 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
Casting
Rotoscoping
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
28. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Scene
Theatre Optique
Trace
Import to library
29. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Ray Harryhausen
Thaumatrope
Tex Avery
Background
30. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Peg Bar
Schlesinger Studios
Methods
Movie clip symbol
31. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Praxinoscope
Zoetrope
Hanna -Barbera
Button symbol
32. 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.
Aardman Studios
Exaggeration
Increment Action
Break apart
33. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Event Listener
Movie clip symbol
Multiplane Camera
Onion Skin
34. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Publish
Edit
Instance
35. 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.
Crossbar
Vector graphic
Thaumatrope
Event sounds
36. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Frame
Components
AddChild
Event sounds
37. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Tween(ing)
Squash and Stretch
Art Clokey
Casting
38. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Publish
Zoopraxiscope
Frame
Flipbook
39. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
UPA
Tripod
Norman Mclaren
Import
40. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Hanna -Barbera
Animation
Zoopraxiscope
Publish
41. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Stop-Motion
Data type
Button symbol
Import
42. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Nesting
Components
Audience
Nesting
43. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Import
Credits
Peter Jackson
Actions panel
44. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Emile Cohl
Hanna -Barbera
AddChild
45. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Zoopraxiscope
Onion Skin
Aardman Studios
Tripod
46. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Cue points
HTML alignment
Onion Skin
47. 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
Persistance of Vision
Scene
Persistance of Vision
48. 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
Animation
Winsor McCay
Ease In and Ease out
49. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Norman Mclaren
Art Clokey
Flipbook
Tripod
50. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Edit
Loader Component
Scene
Bitmap (Raster) graphic