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Animation Basics
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1. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Publish
Peter Jackson
Otto Messmer
Library panel
2. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Onion Skin
Emile Cohl
Movie clip symbol
Tex Avery
3. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Keyframe
Bray Studios
HTML alignment
Library panel
4. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Number variable
J. Stuart Blackton
Zoopraxiscope
Bandwidth Profiler
5. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Nesting
Crossbar
Button symbol
Peter Jackson
6. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
T1
Actions panel
Otto Messmer
Thaumatrope
7. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Flash Lite
Ease In and Ease out
Movie clip symbol
Bray Studios
8. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Nesting
Vector graphic
Ray Harryhausen
Props
9. 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
Aardman Studios
Ray Harryhausen
Limited Animation
10. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Vector graphic
Tripod
Audience
Persistance of Vision
11. Fantasmagorie
Increment Action
UPA
Emile Cohl
Cel
12. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Flash Lite
Nesting
Thaumatrope
Parent-child relationship
13. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Function
Hanna -Barbera
Willis O'Brien
Script
14. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Timeline
Art Clokey
Tim Burton
Walt Disney
15. 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
Chuck Jones
Phenakistoscope
Broadband
Number variable
16. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Dynamic text field
Phenakistoscope
Limited Animation
Trace
17. 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.
Broadband
Hanna -Barbera
Zoopraxiscope
Limited Animation
18. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Flash Lite
Pixar
Emile Cohl
Exaggeration
19. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Trace
String variable
Check syntax
Pixilation
20. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Tween(ing)
Stop-Motion
Vector graphic
Pre-loader
21. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Methods
Persistance of Vision
HTML alignment
Theatre Optique
22. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Increment Action
Ray Harryhausen
Bray Studios
Trace
23. 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.
Decrement Action
Vector graphic
Bray Studios
Classes
24. A description of the hierarchical relationship that develops between nested symbols - especially nested movie clip symbols. When you insert a movie clip inside another movie clip - the inserted clip is considered the child and the original clip is th
Persistance of Vision
Pixar
Theatre Optique
Parent-child relationship
25. 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.
Limited Animation
Bandwidth Profiler
T1
Property
26. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Animation
Broadband
Object
Aardman Studios
27. Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
Edit
Phenakistoscope
Conditional Actions
28. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Graphic Symbols
Squash and Stretch
Otto Messmer
Property
29. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Peter Jackson
Property
Nesting
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
30. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Tex Avery
Number variable
Max and Dave Fleischer
Audience
31. 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.
Emile Reynaud
Vector graphic
Bray Studios
Break apart
32. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Casting
Components
Crossbar
33. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Import to stage
Multiplane Camera
Conditional Actions
Anti-aliasing
34. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Dynamic text field
Peter Jackson
James Cameron
24 frames
35. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
DSL
24 frames
Multiplane Camera
36. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Check syntax
Parent-child relationship
UPA
37. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Button symbol
Otto Messmer
Walt Disney
Decrement Action
38. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Frame
Pre-loader
Tripod
Loop
39. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Credits
Claymation
Methods
Hanna -Barbera
40. Graphic based on pixels
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Anti-aliasing
Library panel
Tex Avery
41. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Flipbook
UPA
Check syntax
42. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Classes
Event Listener
Pixar
24 frames
43. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
UPA
Event sounds
Bandwidth Profiler
44. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Object
Multiplane Camera
Title
Decrement Action
45. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Data type
Import
Thaumatrope
Emile Cohl
46. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Instance
J. Stuart Blackton
Actions panel
Walt Disney
47. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Bandwidth Profiler
Winsor McCay
Trace
48. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Instance
Increment Action
Anti-aliasing
49. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Pixar
Movie clip symbol
Rotoscoping
Publish
50. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Parent-child relationship
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Storyboard
Timeline