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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Background
Schlesinger Studios
Check syntax
Crossbar
2. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Peg Bar
Keyframe
Timeline
Increment Action
3. 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
Flash Lite
Button symbol
Walt Disney
4. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Stop-Motion
Device Central
Increment Action
5. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Function
Tim Burton
Bray Studios
Ray Harryhausen
6. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Tripod
Cue points
Loop
Number variable
7. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Keyframe
Bray Studios
Event Listener
Audience
8. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Edit
Otto Messmer
Flipbook
9. Fantasmagorie
Credits
Emile Cohl
Object
Walt Disney
10. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Art Clokey
Variable
Event sounds
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
11. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Zoopraxiscope
Cel
Bray Studios
12. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Instance
Trace
Thaumatrope
Animation
13. 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
Zoetrope
Multiplane Camera
Rotoscoping
Praxinoscope
14. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Phenakistoscope
Phenakistoscope
Emile Reynaud
Otto Messmer
15. 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
Theatre Optique
Credits
Parent-child relationship
Exaggeration
16. 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
Script
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Vector graphic
17. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Stop-Motion
Instance
Trace
Schlesinger Studios
18. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Event sounds
Praxinoscope
Aardman Studios
Import
19. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Number variable
Script
Peg Bar
Button symbol
20. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Decrement Action
Trace
Stop-Motion
21. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Import to stage
DSL
Frame
Stop-Motion
22. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
James Cameron
Script
Theatre Optique
Event Listener
23. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Scene
Stop-Motion
Phenakistoscope
Bray Studios
24. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Tripod
Bray Studios
Ray Harryhausen
Expressions
25. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Chuck Jones
Loader Component
Pre-loader
26. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Publish
Pre-loader
Property
Limited Animation
27. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Squash and Stretch
HTML alignment
J. Stuart Blackton
Event Listener
28. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
J. Stuart Blackton
Cel
Tween(ing)
Script
29. Scenery hung at back of stage
Broadband
Audience
Frame
Background
30. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
Peter Jackson
Graphic Symbols
Import to library
31. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Willis O'Brien
Flipbook
Parent-child relationship
Script
32. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Flash Lite
Movie clip symbol
Event Listener
Winsor McCay
33. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Object
Crossbar
Scene
Publish
34. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Stream sound
Library panel
Number variable
Animated graphic symbol
35. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Data type
Event sounds
Conditional Actions
36. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Willis O'Brien
Bray Studios
Conditional Actions
37. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Tex Avery
Frame
Loop
Expressions
38. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Dynamic text field
Function
Frame
Hanna -Barbera
39. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Phenakistoscope
Variable
Ray Harryhausen
Anti-aliasing
40. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Methods
Loop
Anti-aliasing
String variable
41. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Script
Increment Action
Classes
42. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Ease In and Ease out
Limited Animation
Appeal
Otto Messmer
43. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
J. Stuart Blackton
Credits
Library panel
Stream sound
44. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Decrement Action
Emile Cohl
Data type
Nesting
45. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Animation
Loop
Audience
Tripod
46. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Dynamic text field
Button symbol
Theatre Optique
T1
47. 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
Walt Disney
Anti-aliasing
Dynamic text field
Timing
48. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Frame
Property
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Library panel
49. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
J. Stuart Blackton
Bandwidth Profiler
Hanna -Barbera
Tween(ing)
50. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Chuck Jones
Peter Jackson
Scene
Title