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Animation Basics
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1. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Ease In and Ease out
Keyframe
Function
Phenakistoscope
2. 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
Aardman Studios
Phenakistoscope
UPA
3. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Ray Harryhausen
Button symbol
Pre-loader
Classes
4. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Loop
Cel
Art Clokey
Tween(ing)
5. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Walt Disney
Increment Action
Phenakistoscope
Import to stage
6. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Trace
Animation
HTML alignment
7. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Methods
Scene
Claymation
Norman Mclaren
8. 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.
Limited Animation
Thaumatrope
Cel
Event Listener
9. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Squash and Stretch
Loader Component
Pixar
10. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
Trace
Decrement Action
Object
11. King Kong
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12. Terminator 2
Praxinoscope
DSL
Device Central
James Cameron
13. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Import to stage
Decrement Action
Walt Disney
Tripod
14. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Decrement Action
Bandwidth Profiler
Emile Reynaud
Library panel
15. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Break apart
Graphic Symbols
Thaumatrope
Frame
16. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Tim Burton
Schlesinger Studios
Components
Function
17. 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
AddChild
Multiplane Camera
UPA
Background
18. King Kong
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19. 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
Bray Studios
Audience
Tripod
20. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Exaggeration
24 frames
Function
Instance
21. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Tripod
Magic Lantern
Claymation
22. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
J. Stuart Blackton
Decrement Action
Keyframe
23. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Aardman Studios
Pixilation
UPA
Anti-aliasing
24. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Chuck Jones
Flash Lite
Conditional Actions
Actions panel
25. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Dynamic text field
Break apart
Check syntax
Limited Animation
26. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Anti-aliasing
Tex Avery
Stream sound
27. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Winsor McCay
Import to stage
Device Central
Title
28. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
AddChild
James Cameron
Variable
Conditional Actions
29. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Anticipation
Emile Cohl
Title
Dynamic text field
30. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Code snippets
Onion Skin
Peg Bar
Otto Messmer
31. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Storyboard
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Stream sound
Audience
32. Fantasmagorie
Emile Reynaud
Stream sound
Library panel
Emile Cohl
33. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Aardman Studios
Classes
Cue points
Object
34. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Tween(ing)
Chuck Jones
Peter Jackson
Storyboard
35. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Background
Movie clip symbol
Object
Pixar
36. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
DSL
Theatre Optique
Edit
Nesting
37. 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.
Anticipation
Object
Event Listener
Frame
38. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Props
Peter Jackson
James Cameron
Instance
39. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Keyframe
Variable
Device Central
Event Listener
40. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Pixilation
Loop
DSL
41. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Credits
Tween(ing)
Event Listener
Squash and Stretch
42. 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
Object
T1
Timing
Stream sound
43. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Conditional Actions
Publish
Ease In and Ease out
44. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
James Cameron
Aardman Studios
Ray Harryhausen
Bray Studios
45. 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
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Frame
Crossbar
46. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Import to stage
Pixar
Pixar
47. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Methods
Edit
Timeline
Check syntax
48. Graphic based on pixels
Event sounds
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Limited Animation
Thaumatrope
49. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Library panel
Pixar
Praxinoscope
Loop
50. 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
Break apart
Multiplane Camera
Keyframe