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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Bandwidth Profiler
Movie clip symbol
Ray Harryhausen
2. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
James Cameron
Hanna -Barbera
Pre-loader
Cel
3. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Walt Disney
Decrement Action
Script
Pre-loader
4. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Stop-Motion
Object
Stop-Motion
5. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Methods
Tween(ing)
Chuck Jones
Classes
6. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Stop-Motion
Pixar
Aardman Studios
Ray Harryhausen
7. The process of changing one data type to another.
Broadband
Button symbol
Casting
Cue points
8. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
HTML alignment
Animation
Keyframe
Loop
9. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Multiplane Camera
Number variable
Vector graphic
Import
10. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Schlesinger Studios
24 frames
HTML alignment
Event sounds
11. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Trace
HTML alignment
String variable
12. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Title
Frame
Persistance of Vision
DSL
13. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
24 frames
Exaggeration
Peter Jackson
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
14. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Phenakistoscope
Winsor McCay
Hanna -Barbera
Cue points
15. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
24 frames
Object
Event Listener
16. 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.
Stream sound
Emile Cohl
Object
Broadband
17. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Peg Bar
Thaumatrope
Tween(ing)
Loader Component
18. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
UPA
Instance
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
19. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Schlesinger Studios
Edit
Aardman Studios
Theatre Optique
20. 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
Multiplane Camera
AddChild
Parent-child relationship
Conditional Actions
21. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Theatre Optique
Flipbook
Persistance of Vision
22. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Claymation
Tim Burton
Stop-Motion
Title
23. 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
Thaumatrope
Variable
UPA
Zoopraxiscope
24. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
Otto Messmer
Broadband
Frame
25. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Thaumatrope
Expressions
Property
Art Clokey
26. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Decrement Action
Stop-Motion
Actions panel
24 frames
27. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Exaggeration
Pixar
Flipbook
Flash Lite
28. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Limited Animation
T1
James Cameron
Ease In and Ease out
29. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
James Cameron
Praxinoscope
Thaumatrope
Import
30. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Movie clip symbol
Stream sound
Props
24 frames
31. 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
Property
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Ray Harryhausen
32. 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.
Keyframe
Library panel
Phenakistoscope
Broadband
33. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Winsor McCay
Timeline
Decrement Action
Trace
34. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Edit
Appeal
T1
Keyframe
35. 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
Pre-loader
Aardman Studios
Parent-child relationship
Pre-loader
36. 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)
Timeline
Tim Burton
Max and Dave Fleischer
Check syntax
37. 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.
Persistance of Vision
Components
Aardman Studios
Ray Harryhausen
38. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Exaggeration
Rotoscoping
Audience
Zoopraxiscope
39. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Title
Graphic Symbols
Rotoscoping
40. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Hanna -Barbera
Object
Decrement Action
Event Listener
41. Brings graphics into the library
Limited Animation
Import to library
Flipbook
Animated graphic symbol
42. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Peter Jackson
J. Stuart Blackton
Movie clip symbol
Conditional Actions
43. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Tim Burton
Function
Stop-Motion
Squash and Stretch
44. King Kong
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45. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Methods
Event sounds
James Cameron
46. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Scene
Expressions
Norman Mclaren
47. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Exaggeration
Max and Dave Fleischer
Thaumatrope
48. 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.
Rotoscoping
Stream sound
Data type
Anticipation
49. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Persistance of Vision
Break apart
Event Listener
Rotoscoping
50. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Tween(ing)
Walt Disney
Methods
Bandwidth Profiler