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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Claymation
Conditional Actions
Instance
2. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Broadband
Keyframe
Willis O'Brien
3. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Background
J. Stuart Blackton
Hanna -Barbera
Timeline
4. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Library panel
Keyframe
Decrement Action
Number variable
5. 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.
Object
HTML alignment
Property
Instance
6. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
24 frames
Background
Multiplane Camera
Event Listener
7. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Animation
Pixar
Aardman Studios
Conditional Actions
8. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Timeline
Norman Mclaren
Edit
9. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Peg Bar
Publish
AddChild
DSL
10. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Conditional Actions
Stream sound
Credits
James Cameron
11. 1 second (default)
Theatre Optique
Tex Avery
Tween(ing)
24 frames
12. 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
Multiplane Camera
Thaumatrope
Norman Mclaren
Graphic Symbols
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.
Break apart
Frame
Cue points
Theatre Optique
14. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Parent-child relationship
Title
Art Clokey
Flash Lite
15. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Bray Studios
Variable
Praxinoscope
Frame
16. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Dynamic text field
Zoetrope
Winsor McCay
Object
17. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Frame
Props
Zoetrope
18. Scenery hung at back of stage
Variable
Peter Jackson
Parent-child relationship
Background
19. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
Zoetrope
HTML alignment
J. Stuart Blackton
20. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Device Central
Flipbook
Zoetrope
Schlesinger Studios
21. 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.
Stream sound
Hanna -Barbera
Event sounds
AddChild
22. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Parent-child relationship
Movie clip symbol
Nesting
J. Stuart Blackton
23. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Tripod
Tween(ing)
Otto Messmer
Willis O'Brien
24. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Exaggeration
Classes
UPA
Object
25. 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.
Emile Reynaud
Tex Avery
Thaumatrope
Limited Animation
26. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Increment Action
T1
Methods
Loader Component
27. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Instance
Instance
Flipbook
Theatre Optique
28. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Library panel
Cel
Tween(ing)
29. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Props
Ease In and Ease out
Chuck Jones
Winsor McCay
30. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Actions panel
UPA
Pixilation
Schlesinger Studios
31. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Winsor McCay
String variable
Storyboard
Trace
32. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Instance
Import
HTML alignment
Tex Avery
33. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
Event Listener
Claymation
UPA
34. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Decrement Action
String variable
Magic Lantern
Exaggeration
35. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
24 frames
Appeal
Break apart
Loop
36. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Rotoscoping
Actions panel
Cel
Function
37. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Pixar
Flash Lite
String variable
Scene
38. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Peter Jackson
Event sounds
Edit
39. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Background
Animation
Emile Reynaud
Script
40. 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.
Exaggeration
Tripod
Components
Tim Burton
41. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Import to library
Data type
Check syntax
Timing
42. 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
Norman Mclaren
Zoopraxiscope
Audience
Loop
43. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Pixilation
Break apart
Tim Burton
J. Stuart Blackton
44. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Flash Lite
Exaggeration
Exaggeration
Expressions
45. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Edit
Peter Jackson
Art Clokey
AddChild
46. Fantasmagorie
Increment Action
Emile Cohl
Import
Methods
47. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Animation
Emile Reynaud
Appeal
Peter Jackson
48. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Event sounds
Data type
Scene
Title
49. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Theatre Optique
UPA
Ease In and Ease out
Audience
50. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Persistance of Vision
T1
Event Listener
Library panel