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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. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.






2. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.






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






4. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood






5. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.






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






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






8. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.






9. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






10. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.






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






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






13. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.






14. To bring information into a computer or computer program






15. 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






16. 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.






17. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts






18. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.






19. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.






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






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






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






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






24. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird






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






26. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.






27. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)






28. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.






29. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






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






31. 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






32. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)






33. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel






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






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






36. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.






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






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






39. Fantasmagorie






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






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






42. 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.






43. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.






44. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document






45. Graphic based on pixels






46. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.






47. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.






48. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






49. 1 second (default)






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