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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
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1. King Kong

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2. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.






3. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.






4. 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






5. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.






6. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.






7. The name of a work of art or movie etc.






8. Fantasmagorie






9. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.






10. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.






11. The process of changing one data type to another.






12. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.






13. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird






14. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.






15. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






16. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie






17. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page






18. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.






19. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.






20. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps






21. 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.






22. 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






23. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.






24. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.






25. Scenery hung at back of stage






26. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it






27. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






28. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.






29. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)






30. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.






31. Terminator 2






32. Gumby - Davey and Goliath






33. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.






34. To bring information into a computer or computer program






35. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.






36. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.






37. 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.






38. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.






39. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.






40. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.






41. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.






42. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera






43. 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






44. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.






45. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera






46. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?






47. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






48. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts






49. 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.






50. 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.