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Animation Basics
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1. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Onion Skin
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Loader Component
Anti-aliasing
2. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Persistance of Vision
Norman Mclaren
Emile Cohl
3. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Increment Action
Variable
Anti-aliasing
Bray Studios
4. 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.
Limited Animation
Break apart
Animated graphic symbol
Walt Disney
5. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Aardman Studios
Tim Burton
Peter Jackson
Tripod
6. Brings graphics into the library
J. Stuart Blackton
Loader Component
Import to library
Chuck Jones
7. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Data type
Theatre Optique
Flipbook
Pixilation
8. 1 second (default)
Aardman Studios
String variable
Variable
24 frames
9. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Device Central
Praxinoscope
Phenakistoscope
Property
10. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Dynamic text field
Flipbook
Import
11. 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.
Magic Lantern
Publish
Onion Skin
Object
12. 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.
Increment Action
Nesting
Limited Animation
Conditional Actions
13. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Theatre Optique
Schlesinger Studios
HTML alignment
Willis O'Brien
14. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Import
String variable
Nesting
Casting
15. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Limited Animation
Casting
Code snippets
16. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Bray Studios
Tween(ing)
Vector graphic
Stop-Motion
17. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Squash and Stretch
Trace
Magic Lantern
Ease In and Ease out
18. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Exaggeration
Squash and Stretch
HTML alignment
T1
19. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Rotoscoping
Stream sound
Variable
Conditional Actions
20. Scenery hung at back of stage
Flash Lite
Tripod
Flipbook
Background
21. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Edit
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Stop-Motion
Movie clip symbol
22. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Number variable
Animated graphic symbol
Theatre Optique
Multiplane Camera
23. 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.
Tex Avery
Vector graphic
Limited Animation
Squash and Stretch
24. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Graphic Symbols
Conditional Actions
Peg Bar
J. Stuart Blackton
25. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Willis O'Brien
Credits
HTML alignment
Broadband
26. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Stop-Motion
Stream sound
Keyframe
27. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Object
Winsor McCay
Casting
Pixar
28. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Vector graphic
AddChild
Bandwidth Profiler
Pixilation
29. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Vector graphic
Flash Lite
Crossbar
Edit
30. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Norman Mclaren
Otto Messmer
Frame
Tripod
31. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Flash Lite
Credits
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Actions panel
32. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Multiplane Camera
Chuck Jones
Break apart
33. 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.
Scene
Components
Praxinoscope
HTML alignment
34. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
UPA
Aardman Studios
Emile Cohl
35. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
HTML alignment
Event sounds
Claymation
36. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
HTML alignment
Check syntax
Classes
37. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Device Central
Aardman Studios
Library panel
Flash Lite
38. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Hanna -Barbera
Norman Mclaren
Button symbol
Graphic Symbols
39. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Credits
Claymation
Number variable
Function
40. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Increment Action
Dynamic text field
Tripod
Tim Burton
41. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Data type
Event sounds
J. Stuart Blackton
Nesting
42. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Casting
Walt Disney
AddChild
Break apart
43. 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.
Peter Jackson
Vector graphic
Nesting
Otto Messmer
44. Fantasmagorie
Data type
Conditional Actions
Emile Cohl
Flipbook
45. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Norman Mclaren
Onion Skin
Scene
Tween(ing)
46. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Data type
Flash Lite
Parent-child relationship
Emile Reynaud
47. 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
Cue points
Timeline
Parent-child relationship
Scene
48. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Event Listener
Edit
Movie clip symbol
Scene
49. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
J. Stuart Blackton
Import to stage
Instance
Theatre Optique
50. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Loop
Limited Animation
Code snippets
Crossbar