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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine






2. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.






3. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.






4. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files






5. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






6. Terminator 2






7. 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.






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






9. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.






10. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?






11. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.






12. 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)






13. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






14. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






15. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.






16. The name of a work of art or movie etc.






17. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.






18. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






19. Flattens out and elongate slightly






20. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.






21. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.






22. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






23. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.






24. 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)






25. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.






26. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.






27. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.






28. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it






29. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.






30. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations






31. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.






32. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition






33. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)






34. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






35. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.






36. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.






37. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.






38. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.






39. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.






40. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.






41. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie






42. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -






43. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)






44. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.






45. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations






46. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.






47. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.






48. To bring information into a computer or computer program






49. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.






50. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps