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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Code snippets
Increment Action
Scene
Otto Messmer
2. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Publish
Emile Cohl
Animated graphic symbol
Pixilation
3. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Anticipation
Library panel
AddChild
4. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Tripod
Graphic Symbols
Otto Messmer
5. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Loop
Art Clokey
Magic Lantern
Decrement Action
6. 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
Aardman Studios
Vector graphic
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
7. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Conditional Actions
Pre-loader
Onion Skin
Variable
8. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Button symbol
Storyboard
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
9. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Emile Reynaud
Data type
Property
Flash Lite
10. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Broadband
Willis O'Brien
Device Central
11. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Graphic Symbols
Pixar
Claymation
12. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Title
Aardman Studios
Squash and Stretch
Emile Cohl
13. 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
Publish
Pre-loader
Object
14. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Praxinoscope
Claymation
Pixilation
Nesting
15. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Zoopraxiscope
Keyframe
Schlesinger Studios
Appeal
16. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Event Listener
Persistance of Vision
Ray Harryhausen
17. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Instance
Cel
Tex Avery
Movie clip symbol
18. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Thaumatrope
Loader Component
Import to stage
Animation
19. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Pixar
Tween(ing)
Bandwidth Profiler
20. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
AddChild
Import to stage
Emile Cohl
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
21. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Tween(ing)
Crossbar
Import
Anticipation
22. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Anti-aliasing
Publish
Art Clokey
23. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
T1
AddChild
Flipbook
Data type
24. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Crossbar
Movie clip symbol
Break apart
25. 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
Squash and Stretch
Event Listener
Scene
Timing
26. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Bandwidth Profiler
Cue points
Conditional Actions
AddChild
27. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Onion Skin
Casting
Praxinoscope
Tween(ing)
28. 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.
Storyboard
Stream sound
Edit
Timing
29. 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.
Schlesinger Studios
Break apart
Classes
Import to library
30. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Variable
Device Central
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pixar
31. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Script
HTML alignment
Device Central
Frame
32. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Code snippets
Variable
HTML alignment
Chuck Jones
33. 1 second (default)
Ray Harryhausen
Animated graphic symbol
24 frames
Rotoscoping
34. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Anti-aliasing
Parent-child relationship
Anticipation
Timing
35. Fantasmagorie
Pre-loader
Emile Cohl
Keyframe
Dynamic text field
36. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Credits
Emile Cohl
AddChild
Keyframe
37. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
String variable
Methods
Vector graphic
38. 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.
Bandwidth Profiler
Credits
Limited Animation
Emile Cohl
39. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Bandwidth Profiler
Stream sound
Theatre Optique
Winsor McCay
40. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Number variable
Nesting
Conditional Actions
Zoetrope
41. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Graphic Symbols
Break apart
Crossbar
42. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Movie clip symbol
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Willis O'Brien
String variable
43. Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
String variable
T1
Limited Animation
44. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Event Listener
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Cue points
Timeline
45. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Loop
Timeline
Thaumatrope
46. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Storyboard
Bandwidth Profiler
Magic Lantern
T1
47. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Nesting
DSL
Function
Timing
48. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Parent-child relationship
Schlesinger Studios
Import
DSL
49. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Frame
Check syntax
Ease In and Ease out
50. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
String variable
Claymation
Appeal
Data type