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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Button symbol
Vector graphic
Emile Cohl
Title
2. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Nesting
Trace
HTML alignment
Exaggeration
3. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Tim Burton
Actions panel
Pixilation
Art Clokey
4. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Components
UPA
Cue points
Peter Jackson
5. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Timing
Edit
Tripod
Max and Dave Fleischer
6. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Import to library
Squash and Stretch
Ease In and Ease out
Storyboard
7. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Frame
Tex Avery
Magic Lantern
Aardman Studios
8. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Squash and Stretch
Tween(ing)
Limited Animation
Exaggeration
9. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Peg Bar
Import
Decrement Action
Norman Mclaren
10. 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.
Expressions
Break apart
Flash Lite
Stream sound
11. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Loop
Claymation
Dynamic text field
12. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Max and Dave Fleischer
Praxinoscope
Willis O'Brien
Exaggeration
13. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
String variable
UPA
Expressions
Pixilation
14. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Crossbar
Data type
Anti-aliasing
Script
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.
Publish
Hanna -Barbera
Object
Multiplane Camera
16. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Property
Flash Lite
Edit
17. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Button symbol
Thaumatrope
Conditional Actions
Actions panel
18. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Script
Break apart
Willis O'Brien
Methods
19. 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.
Stream sound
Bray Studios
Audience
Ray Harryhausen
20. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Import to stage
Movie clip symbol
Methods
Pixilation
21. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Bray Studios
Pixar
Magic Lantern
Exaggeration
22. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Device Central
Graphic Symbols
Loop
Theatre Optique
23. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Dynamic text field
Winsor McCay
Emile Reynaud
Scene
24. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
J. Stuart Blackton
Anti-aliasing
Edit
Event Listener
25. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Parent-child relationship
Edit
Rotoscoping
Script
26. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
24 frames
Tex Avery
Ray Harryhausen
Flash Lite
27. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Data type
James Cameron
Claymation
Audience
28. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
String variable
Edit
Tween(ing)
James Cameron
29. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Stream sound
Conditional Actions
Check syntax
Check syntax
30. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Trace
Zoetrope
Timeline
31. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Flipbook
Norman Mclaren
Anti-aliasing
32. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Tex Avery
Trace
Pre-loader
Expressions
33. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Walt Disney
Import
Bandwidth Profiler
Anticipation
34. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Broadband
Norman Mclaren
Ease In and Ease out
Otto Messmer
35. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Animated graphic symbol
Loop
Device Central
36. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Willis O'Brien
Tween(ing)
Cue points
Tex Avery
37. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Parent-child relationship
J. Stuart Blackton
Function
Peter Jackson
38. Fantasmagorie
Background
Emile Cohl
Props
Stream sound
39. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Pixilation
Anti-aliasing
Max and Dave Fleischer
40. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Crossbar
Winsor McCay
Increment Action
Tripod
41. A spinning disc mounted vertically on a handle. Around the center of the disc a series of pictures was drawn corresponding to frames of the animation; around its circumference was a series of radial slits. The user would spin the disc and look throug
Graphic Symbols
Phenakistoscope
Magic Lantern
Button symbol
42. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Movie clip symbol
Anti-aliasing
Crossbar
Winsor McCay
43. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Button symbol
Frame
Number variable
Import to library
44. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Components
Crossbar
Anti-aliasing
45. A sound that plays independently of the Timeline. The sound starts in the keyframe to which it is added - but it can continue playing even after a movie ends. Must download completely before it begins playing.
Event sounds
Loader Component
Claymation
Variable
46. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Publish
Art Clokey
Methods
Praxinoscope
47. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Pre-loader
Parent-child relationship
Vector graphic
Movie clip symbol
48. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Thaumatrope
Onion Skin
Number variable
Cue points
49. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Praxinoscope
Function
Publish
Library panel
50. A type of data transmission - such as DSL and cable - in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit more information at the same time.
Broadband
Methods
Theatre Optique
Persistance of Vision