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Animation Basics
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1. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Check syntax
Tex Avery
Norman Mclaren
2. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Import to library
Import to library
Components
3. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Pixar
Phenakistoscope
Willis O'Brien
Props
4. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Phenakistoscope
Winsor McCay
24 frames
Pixar
5. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Schlesinger Studios
Animated graphic symbol
Appeal
Property
6. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Loop
Magic Lantern
Actions panel
Appeal
7. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Vector graphic
Anti-aliasing
Device Central
Check syntax
8. 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
Library panel
Title
Emile Cohl
Zoopraxiscope
9. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Animated graphic symbol
Tripod
Import to stage
Schlesinger Studios
10. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
AddChild
Parent-child relationship
Scene
Property
11. 1 second (default)
Norman Mclaren
24 frames
Emile Reynaud
Zoopraxiscope
12. 1 second (default)
Schlesinger Studios
Audience
24 frames
Pixilation
13. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Background
Flipbook
24 frames
Credits
14. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Event Listener
Pre-loader
Publish
15. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Praxinoscope
Flash Lite
Library panel
16. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
Aardman Studios
Broadband
Vector graphic
17. King Kong
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18. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
HTML alignment
Parent-child relationship
Methods
Bray Studios
19. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Credits
Rotoscoping
Classes
Animation
20. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Anticipation
Background
Number variable
Credits
21. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Instance
Onion Skin
Decrement Action
UPA
22. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Trace
Storyboard
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
23. 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
Actions panel
Props
Peg Bar
24. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Magic Lantern
Button symbol
Background
25. 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.
Chuck Jones
Timing
Increment Action
Vector graphic
26. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Ease In and Ease out
Stop-Motion
Tripod
Loop
27. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Magic Lantern
Movie clip symbol
Stop-Motion
Data type
28. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Magic Lantern
HTML alignment
Cel
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
29. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Exaggeration
Peg Bar
HTML alignment
Multiplane Camera
30. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Property
Frame
Pre-loader
Increment Action
31. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Expressions
Trace
Theatre Optique
Flash Lite
32. 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
Thaumatrope
Pixar
Phenakistoscope
HTML alignment
33. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Import
Praxinoscope
James Cameron
Button symbol
34. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Decrement Action
Peg Bar
Animation
Rotoscoping
35. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Winsor McCay
Instance
Edit
Hanna -Barbera
36. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
24 frames
Appeal
Flipbook
Instance
37. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
James Cameron
Zoetrope
Publish
38. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Tween(ing)
Tim Burton
Data type
39. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Expressions
Norman Mclaren
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Peg Bar
40. 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
Background
Props
Graphic Symbols
41. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Flash Lite
Squash and Stretch
Timeline
Claymation
42. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Emile Reynaud
Property
Crossbar
Graphic Symbols
43. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Emile Reynaud
String variable
Frame
Praxinoscope
44. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Crossbar
Cue points
AddChild
Tex Avery
45. 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.
Norman Mclaren
Bray Studios
Magic Lantern
Broadband
46. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Pre-loader
Loop
Timeline
Frame
47. The process of changing one data type to another.
Publish
Casting
Data type
Dynamic text field
48. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Thaumatrope
Vector graphic
Conditional Actions
Timing
49. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Zoetrope
Appeal
Frame
Persistance of Vision
50. 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.
Event sounds
Import to library
Object
Bandwidth Profiler