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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sound that is tied to the Timeline. No matter its length - a streaming sound stops at the end of the movie. Can start palying as they download.
Stream sound
J. Stuart Blackton
Phenakistoscope
Tripod
2. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Crossbar
Event Listener
Import
Stop-Motion
3. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Onion Skin
Script
Flash Lite
Pre-loader
4. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Import to stage
Emile Cohl
Audience
Function
5. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Norman Mclaren
Publish
Aardman Studios
Classes
6. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Limited Animation
Device Central
Casting
Otto Messmer
7. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Persistance of Vision
Ray Harryhausen
Function
Expressions
8. 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
AddChild
Components
UPA
Phenakistoscope
9. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Parent-child relationship
Variable
Max and Dave Fleischer
J. Stuart Blackton
10. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Chuck Jones
Exaggeration
Object
Conditional Actions
11. 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
Bray Studios
AddChild
Actions panel
Timing
12. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Otto Messmer
Anti-aliasing
Flipbook
Credits
13. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Props
Instance
Actions panel
HTML alignment
14. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Pre-loader
Scene
Background
Otto Messmer
15. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Dynamic text field
Limited Animation
Title
Thaumatrope
16. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Limited Animation
Walt Disney
Anti-aliasing
Tex Avery
17. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Script
Props
James Cameron
18. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Emile Cohl
Flash Lite
Squash and Stretch
Peg Bar
19. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Norman Mclaren
Winsor McCay
Decrement Action
Event sounds
20. 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.
Increment Action
Variable
Vector graphic
Pre-loader
21. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Bray Studios
Zoopraxiscope
Animated graphic symbol
Variable
22. Terminator 2
Tripod
Frame
James Cameron
Import to stage
23. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Willis O'Brien
Movie clip symbol
Keyframe
Ease In and Ease out
24. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
24 frames
Title
Storyboard
Rotoscoping
25. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Decrement Action
24 frames
Praxinoscope
Keyframe
26. 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
Edit
Multiplane Camera
Timing
Background
27. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Tex Avery
Casting
T1
28. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Anti-aliasing
Cel
Loader Component
29. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Decrement Action
Actions panel
Hanna -Barbera
Pixar
30. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Frame
24 frames
Anti-aliasing
Animated graphic symbol
31. 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.
Ease In and Ease out
Data type
Limited Animation
Props
32. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Dynamic text field
Increment Action
Multiplane Camera
Function
33. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Movie clip symbol
Phenakistoscope
UPA
Scene
34. King Kong
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35. The process of changing one data type to another.
Casting
Hanna -Barbera
Otto Messmer
Flipbook
36. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Magic Lantern
Import
Object
Props
37. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Phenakistoscope
Appeal
Animated graphic symbol
Peg Bar
38. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Parent-child relationship
Peter Jackson
Classes
Casting
39. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Zoopraxiscope
24 frames
Tween(ing)
Walt Disney
40. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Button symbol
Break apart
Stream sound
Appeal
41. 1 second (default)
Event Listener
Rotoscoping
Claymation
24 frames
42. Graphic based on pixels
Exaggeration
Cue points
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Credits
43. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Variable
Props
Peg Bar
Increment Action
44. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Props
Aardman Studios
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Phenakistoscope
45. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Number variable
Anticipation
Norman Mclaren
46. 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
Schlesinger Studios
Animation
Animation
Zoopraxiscope
47. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Code snippets
Dynamic text field
Norman Mclaren
HTML alignment
48. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Device Central
T1
Ease In and Ease out
Peg Bar
49. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Object
Onion Skin
Storyboard
Broadband
50. A sound that is tied to the Timeline. No matter its length - a streaming sound stops at the end of the movie. Can start palying as they download.
Stream sound
Script
Conditional Actions
Squash and Stretch