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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Fantasmagorie






2. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.






3. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






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






5. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






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






7. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.






8. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.






9. 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






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






11. Scenery hung at back of stage






12. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.






13. Flattens out and elongate slightly






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






15. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.






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






17. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.






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






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






27. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -






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






29. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.






30. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.






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






32. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.






33. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.






34. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud






35. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.






36. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.






37. Is mounted above a series of cells - each containing separate elements of the scene.. Because the cells are mounted at varying distances from the camera - if it pans or moves toward them - an effect of motion perspective is created. This was invented






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






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






40. 1 second (default)






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. Gumby - Davey and Goliath






48. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.






49. 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






50. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.