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Animation Basics
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1. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Parent-child relationship
Pixilation
Movie clip symbol
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
2. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Event Listener
Broadband
Max and Dave Fleischer
Button symbol
3. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Storyboard
Stop-Motion
Code snippets
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
4. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Rotoscoping
Cue points
Methods
5. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tween(ing)
Loader Component
Tim Burton
Zoopraxiscope
6. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Check syntax
Broadband
AddChild
7. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Script
Check syntax
Cue points
Credits
8. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Variable
Scene
Zoetrope
Magic Lantern
9. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Stream sound
Broadband
Frame
Pixar
10. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Multiplane Camera
Cel
Limited Animation
Onion Skin
11. King Kong
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12. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Components
UPA
Tim Burton
Peg Bar
13. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Dynamic text field
Bray Studios
Claymation
AddChild
14. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Schlesinger Studios
Phenakistoscope
Norman Mclaren
Button symbol
15. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Loader Component
Import to stage
Flash Lite
Dynamic text field
16. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Flash Lite
Storyboard
Appeal
Title
17. 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.
Data type
Break apart
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Otto Messmer
18. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Ease In and Ease out
Art Clokey
Components
Emile Reynaud
19. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Ease In and Ease out
String variable
Bandwidth Profiler
20. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Crossbar
Audience
Keyframe
Crossbar
21. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Exaggeration
Art Clokey
Anti-aliasing
22. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Frame
Script
Methods
Conditional Actions
23. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Storyboard
Aardman Studios
Emile Reynaud
Animated graphic symbol
24. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Bandwidth Profiler
Ease In and Ease out
Loop
Audience
25. Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Otto Messmer
Rotoscoping
26. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Winsor McCay
Variable
Script
Zoetrope
27. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Magic Lantern
Loader Component
Animation
Bandwidth Profiler
28. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Tim Burton
Props
Squash and Stretch
Pixar
29. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
24 frames
Increment Action
Audience
30. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Peter Jackson
Flash Lite
Persistance of Vision
Pixar
31. 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
Ease In and Ease out
Emile Cohl
Max and Dave Fleischer
32. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Stop-Motion
Expressions
Publish
Crossbar
33. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Phenakistoscope
Function
Anti-aliasing
Zoopraxiscope
34. 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.
Emile Reynaud
Classes
Vector graphic
Winsor McCay
35. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Event Listener
Exaggeration
Anti-aliasing
Movie clip symbol
36. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Walt Disney
Edit
Bray Studios
Winsor McCay
37. 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
Event Listener
Pixilation
Conditional Actions
38. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Casting
Squash and Stretch
Norman Mclaren
Emile Cohl
39. 1 second (default)
Break apart
Check syntax
Casting
24 frames
40. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Methods
Storyboard
Button symbol
Timeline
41. Fantasmagorie
Variable
T1
String variable
Emile Cohl
42. 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.
Anticipation
Pre-loader
Break apart
James Cameron
43. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Thaumatrope
Button symbol
Event Listener
44. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Theatre Optique
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Anti-aliasing
Classes
45. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Tween(ing)
Limited Animation
Emile Reynaud
Import
46. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Number variable
Willis O'Brien
Dynamic text field
Pixar
47. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Property
Trace
Flipbook
Peter Jackson
48. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Walt Disney
Tripod
Increment Action
Cel
49. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Stop-Motion
Device Central
Parent-child relationship
Methods
50. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Anticipation
Import
Storyboard