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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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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. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Walt Disney
Rotoscoping
Bandwidth Profiler
Tween(ing)
2. King Kong
3. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Code snippets
J. Stuart Blackton
Check syntax
Publish
4. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Property
Ease In and Ease out
Theatre Optique
Animation
5. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Movie clip symbol
Methods
Rotoscoping
Persistance of Vision
6. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Art Clokey
Pre-loader
Variable
7. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Frame
Animation
Actions panel
Multiplane Camera
8. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Import
Praxinoscope
Property
Flipbook
9. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Stream sound
Bandwidth Profiler
Keyframe
Classes
10. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Animated graphic symbol
Event Listener
String variable
Expressions
11. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
James Cameron
Function
Audience
Increment Action
12. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Timeline
Check syntax
Audience
Methods
13. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tim Burton
Tripod
Zoopraxiscope
Zoetrope
14. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pixar
Willis O'Brien
Magic Lantern
Pre-loader
15. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Persistance of Vision
Schlesinger Studios
Art Clokey
Exaggeration
16. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Expressions
HTML alignment
Nesting
Edit
17. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Event sounds
Loop
Edit
J. Stuart Blackton
18. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Broadband
Loader Component
Event Listener
Squash and Stretch
19. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Anti-aliasing
Keyframe
HTML alignment
Background
20. 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
DSL
Decrement Action
Animated graphic symbol
Zoopraxiscope
21. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Conditional Actions
Props
Peg Bar
Pre-loader
22. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Movie clip symbol
Scene
Timeline
Walt Disney
23. 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.
Check syntax
Stream sound
Vector graphic
Edit
24. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Movie clip symbol
Components
Tex Avery
Timeline
25. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Loop
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Winsor McCay
Max and Dave Fleischer
26. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Library panel
Timeline
Audience
Scene
27. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Graphic Symbols
Zoetrope
Conditional Actions
Stop-Motion
28. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
HTML alignment
Data type
Function
Loader Component
29. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Animated graphic symbol
Magic Lantern
Peg Bar
Tex Avery
30. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Nesting
Stop-Motion
Magic Lantern
Audience
31. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Pre-loader
Loop
Keyframe
Hanna -Barbera
32. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Device Central
Squash and Stretch
UPA
Appeal
33. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Anticipation
Break apart
Object
Increment Action
34. The process of changing one data type to another.
Check syntax
Bandwidth Profiler
Casting
Schlesinger Studios
35. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Willis O'Brien
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Exaggeration
T1
36. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Credits
Thaumatrope
Frame
Conditional Actions
37. 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.
Script
Willis O'Brien
Multiplane Camera
Break apart
38. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Background
Crossbar
Data type
Tripod
39. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Dynamic text field
Otto Messmer
Components
Variable
40. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
Anti-aliasing
Event sounds
Emile Reynaud
41. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Button symbol
Crossbar
Movie clip symbol
42. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Background
Peg Bar
Flash Lite
Claymation
43. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Data type
Trace
Device Central
44. Brings graphics into the library
Keyframe
Tex Avery
Cue points
Import to library
45. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Title
AddChild
UPA
Loader Component
46. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Import
Code snippets
Tim Burton
Edit
47. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Crossbar
Edit
Tween(ing)
Thaumatrope
48. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
J. Stuart Blackton
Stream sound
Chuck Jones
Walt Disney
49. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Dynamic text field
Code snippets
Storyboard
50. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Tex Avery
Magic Lantern
Credits
Expressions