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Animation Basics
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1. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Import to library
Decrement Action
UPA
Multiplane Camera
2. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Object
Conditional Actions
Schlesinger Studios
24 frames
3. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Property
Number variable
Increment Action
Appeal
4. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Code snippets
Peter Jackson
Expressions
Emile Reynaud
5. A description of the hierarchical relationship that develops between nested symbols - especially nested movie clip symbols. When you insert a movie clip inside another movie clip - the inserted clip is considered the child and the original clip is th
Movie clip symbol
Instance
Scene
Parent-child relationship
6. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Expressions
Decrement Action
Aardman Studios
Broadband
7. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Variable
Emile Reynaud
Theatre Optique
Zoetrope
8. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Rotoscoping
Data type
Pixar
Squash and Stretch
9. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Bandwidth Profiler
Button symbol
Walt Disney
Break apart
10. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Willis O'Brien
Frame
HTML alignment
Check syntax
11. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Cue points
Function
Magic Lantern
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
12. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Scene
Code snippets
Crossbar
13. 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.
Decrement Action
Multiplane Camera
Break apart
Rotoscoping
14. 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
Zoopraxiscope
Schlesinger Studios
Norman Mclaren
Exaggeration
15. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Graphic Symbols
J. Stuart Blackton
Trace
Animation
16. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Scene
DSL
Trace
Pixar
17. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Frame
Emile Cohl
Bandwidth Profiler
Props
18. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Tim Burton
Scene
Stream sound
19. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Loader Component
Norman Mclaren
Variable
Bandwidth Profiler
20. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Components
Magic Lantern
Animated graphic symbol
Edit
21. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Scene
Winsor McCay
Peter Jackson
Import
22. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Keyframe
Persistance of Vision
Anti-aliasing
Ray Harryhausen
23. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Graphic Symbols
Squash and Stretch
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
String variable
24. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Peg Bar
Flash Lite
Zoetrope
Loader Component
25. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Timing
Methods
Event Listener
J. Stuart Blackton
26. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Peter Jackson
Hanna -Barbera
Schlesinger Studios
Stop-Motion
27. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Code snippets
Walt Disney
Frame
28. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Object
Scene
Import
29. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Squash and Stretch
Phenakistoscope
Instance
Casting
30. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
UPA
Persistance of Vision
Instance
31. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Variable
Audience
Edit
HTML alignment
32. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Audience
Cue points
Background
Variable
33. Created rotoscoping - The Tantalizing Fly (Koko the Clown) - Dizzy Dishes - Minnie the Moocher(Betty Boop) - Popeye (Popeye Meets Sinbad) - Superman series - Gulliver's Travels (first animated feature not from Disney)
Schlesinger Studios
Anticipation
Max and Dave Fleischer
J. Stuart Blackton
34. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
AddChild
Flash Lite
Movie clip symbol
Peter Jackson
35. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Tex Avery
Ease In and Ease out
Hanna -Barbera
36. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
DSL
Magic Lantern
Instance
Zoetrope
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
Walt Disney
Multiplane Camera
Ray Harryhausen
Casting
38. Terminator 2
Bray Studios
Timeline
James Cameron
Timeline
39. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Event sounds
Ray Harryhausen
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Methods
40. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Decrement Action
Flash Lite
24 frames
Instance
41. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Classes
Credits
J. Stuart Blackton
42. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Claymation
UPA
Timeline
43. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
James Cameron
Theatre Optique
Flipbook
Function
44. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Title
Bray Studios
Data type
Appeal
45. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Bandwidth Profiler
Number variable
Conditional Actions
46. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Winsor McCay
Walt Disney
Audience
Anti-aliasing
47. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Praxinoscope
Peg Bar
Multiplane Camera
Number variable
48. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
Script
Tim Burton
Function
49. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Cel
Trace
Storyboard
Title
50. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Appeal
Dynamic text field
Cue points
Data type