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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Data type
HTML alignment
Pixilation
Art Clokey
2. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
UPA
Zoetrope
Props
Variable
3. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Persistance of Vision
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Import to stage
Expressions
4. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Theatre Optique
Norman Mclaren
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Tex Avery
5. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Emile Cohl
Aardman Studios
Variable
6. 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.
Expressions
Chuck Jones
Event sounds
Object
7. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Peg Bar
Decrement Action
Library panel
Bray Studios
8. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Nesting
Storyboard
Zoopraxiscope
Crossbar
9. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Movie clip symbol
Cel
Zoetrope
Dynamic text field
10. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Library panel
Flash Lite
Tween(ing)
Keyframe
11. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Event Listener
Button symbol
Function
Script
12. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Pixar
Increment Action
DSL
Import
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
Broadband
Variable
Movie clip symbol
Multiplane Camera
14. Fantasmagorie
Graphic Symbols
Emile Cohl
Number variable
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
15. 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.
Phenakistoscope
Stop-Motion
Norman Mclaren
Object
16. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
Exaggeration
Ray Harryhausen
Chuck Jones
17. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Variable
Increment Action
Trace
Loader Component
18. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Scene
Animated graphic symbol
Chuck Jones
Data type
19. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Object
Walt Disney
Bandwidth Profiler
Event Listener
20. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Art Clokey
Expressions
Cue points
Check syntax
21. 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.
Movie clip symbol
Data type
Squash and Stretch
Components
22. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Limited Animation
Script
Crossbar
Loop
23. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Peter Jackson
Bandwidth Profiler
Increment Action
Trace
24. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Stream sound
Exaggeration
Pixar
Edit
25. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
Import to library
Art Clokey
Button symbol
26. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Aardman Studios
Button symbol
Magic Lantern
Chuck Jones
27. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Flash Lite
Keyframe
Phenakistoscope
Casting
28. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Emile Cohl
Number variable
Dynamic text field
Aardman Studios
29. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Increment Action
James Cameron
Pixar
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
30. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Decrement Action
Publish
Theatre Optique
Cue points
31. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
Peter Jackson
String variable
Code snippets
32. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Title
Scene
DSL
Art Clokey
33. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Casting
Import to library
Audience
Zoopraxiscope
34. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Parent-child relationship
Stop-Motion
Script
Emile Cohl
35. 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
Ease In and Ease out
Parent-child relationship
Audience
36. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Library panel
Emile Cohl
Parent-child relationship
Squash and Stretch
37. 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
Parent-child relationship
Tim Burton
Timing
Trace
38. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Tex Avery
Movie clip symbol
Rotoscoping
39. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Credits
Zoopraxiscope
Nesting
Willis O'Brien
40. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Tripod
DSL
Emile Cohl
Edit
41. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Stream sound
Credits
Peter Jackson
Classes
42. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Tween(ing)
Ray Harryhausen
Loader Component
Check syntax
43. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Import
Code snippets
Pixilation
44. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
String variable
Actions panel
Tween(ing)
Walt Disney
45. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Art Clokey
Instance
Scene
Appeal
46. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Animated graphic symbol
Button symbol
Parent-child relationship
Anti-aliasing
47. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Aardman Studios
Tween(ing)
Tim Burton
Animation
48. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Import to stage
J. Stuart Blackton
Emile Cohl
49. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Audience
Willis O'Brien
Art Clokey
Aardman Studios
50. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
AddChild
Chuck Jones
Zoetrope
Vector graphic