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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Emile Cohl
Device Central
Broadband
Phenakistoscope
2. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Animated graphic symbol
Pixilation
Variable
Storyboard
3. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Thaumatrope
Actions panel
Storyboard
Pre-loader
4. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Limited Animation
James Cameron
Variable
5. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Timing
Zoopraxiscope
Loop
6. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Graphic Symbols
Cel
Movie clip symbol
7. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Movie clip symbol
Multiplane Camera
Keyframe
Import to stage
8. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Ray Harryhausen
Anticipation
Willis O'Brien
9. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Winsor McCay
Pixar
Walt Disney
10. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
HTML alignment
Methods
Graphic Symbols
T1
11. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Crossbar
Button symbol
James Cameron
Props
12. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Button symbol
Title
Onion Skin
Tex Avery
13. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Squash and Stretch
Button symbol
Trace
Graphic Symbols
14. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Import to library
Frame
Import
15. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Bandwidth Profiler
Keyframe
Credits
Event sounds
16. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Onion Skin
Bandwidth Profiler
Emile Cohl
Limited Animation
17. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Instance
Scene
Number variable
18. The process of changing one data type to another.
Stream sound
Anti-aliasing
Casting
J. Stuart Blackton
19. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Tripod
Chuck Jones
Walt Disney
Decrement Action
20. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Classes
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Nesting
Exaggeration
21. 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
Hanna -Barbera
Bandwidth Profiler
Title
Multiplane Camera
22. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Import to library
Bandwidth Profiler
Onion Skin
Ease In and Ease out
23. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Tween(ing)
Scene
Norman Mclaren
Exaggeration
24. 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
Pixar
Audience
Background
25. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Title
Claymation
DSL
String variable
26. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Animation
Expressions
Crossbar
27. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Storyboard
Zoopraxiscope
AddChild
Magic Lantern
28. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Script
Hanna -Barbera
Code snippets
Animation
29. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Zoopraxiscope
Walt Disney
Keyframe
Ease In and Ease out
30. 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
Animation
Phenakistoscope
Bray Studios
Tripod
31. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Function
Storyboard
Animation
HTML alignment
32. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Classes
Function
Frame
James Cameron
33. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Ray Harryhausen
Methods
UPA
34. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Frame
Credits
Vector graphic
Phenakistoscope
35. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Schlesinger Studios
Trace
Graphic Symbols
Loop
36. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Anticipation
Ray Harryhausen
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Data type
37. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Animation
Expressions
Dynamic text field
Event sounds
38. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Flash Lite
Tripod
Object
39. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Limited Animation
Movie clip symbol
Appeal
Aardman Studios
40. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Onion Skin
Peter Jackson
Increment Action
Background
41. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Stream sound
Cue points
Zoetrope
Exaggeration
42. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
J. Stuart Blackton
Casting
Timing
Claymation
43. 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
Ease In and Ease out
Chuck Jones
Ease In and Ease out
44. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Stream sound
Appeal
Zoetrope
45. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Onion Skin
Check syntax
Anti-aliasing
46. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Increment Action
String variable
Cue points
Aardman Studios
47. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Bray Studios
Expressions
Publish
Max and Dave Fleischer
48. Graphic based on pixels
Props
Frame
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Vector graphic
49. An animation process that does not redraw entire frames of animation but instead variably reuses common parts between frames. This was a quick and cheap way to produce animations for Saturday morning cartoons.
Winsor McCay
Squash and Stretch
Limited Animation
Nesting
50. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Appeal
Library panel
Theatre Optique
Pre-loader