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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Claymation
Check syntax
Device Central
Trace
2. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Cue points
Library panel
Squash and Stretch
Hanna -Barbera
3. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Device Central
Crossbar
Publish
Thaumatrope
4. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Chuck Jones
Check syntax
Number variable
Casting
5. 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
Timeline
Zoopraxiscope
James Cameron
DSL
6. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Decrement Action
Flipbook
Tripod
Tripod
7. 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
Hanna -Barbera
Parent-child relationship
Methods
Graphic Symbols
8. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Stream sound
Button symbol
Loader Component
9. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Otto Messmer
Ray Harryhausen
Rotoscoping
Exaggeration
10. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Property
Flipbook
Edit
Cue points
11. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Peter Jackson
Zoopraxiscope
Ease In and Ease out
12. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Data type
Number variable
Code snippets
T1
13. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Limited Animation
Aardman Studios
Object
14. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Hanna -Barbera
Tripod
Stream sound
Property
15. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Movie clip symbol
Methods
AddChild
String variable
16. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Multiplane Camera
Property
Otto Messmer
Crossbar
17. A type of data transmission - such as DSL and cable - in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit more information at the same time.
Title
Broadband
Storyboard
Willis O'Brien
18. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Pre-loader
Winsor McCay
Actions panel
Import to library
19. 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.
Methods
Multiplane Camera
Vector graphic
Expressions
20. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Stream sound
Increment Action
Methods
Credits
21. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Vector graphic
Cel
Phenakistoscope
22. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Magic Lantern
Ease In and Ease out
Tripod
Flipbook
23. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Winsor McCay
Methods
Claymation
J. Stuart Blackton
24. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Edit
DSL
Zoopraxiscope
Credits
25. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Audience
Frame
Animation
26. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Peter Jackson
Animated graphic symbol
Bray Studios
Emile Reynaud
27. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Tex Avery
Publish
Exaggeration
28. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
Casting
Peter Jackson
Peg Bar
29. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Schlesinger Studios
J. Stuart Blackton
Stop-Motion
30. 1 second (default)
Components
24 frames
Claymation
Theatre Optique
31. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Device Central
Import
Tripod
Props
32. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Emile Cohl
Loop
Variable
Stream sound
33. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Break apart
Winsor McCay
Art Clokey
34. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Willis O'Brien
Casting
Magic Lantern
Cel
35. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Broadband
Storyboard
Import to stage
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
36. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Hanna -Barbera
24 frames
Onion Skin
Expressions
37. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Title
J. Stuart Blackton
Squash and Stretch
UPA
38. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Pixilation
Vector graphic
Stop-Motion
Art Clokey
39. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Decrement Action
Emile Cohl
Pixar
Aardman Studios
40. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Bandwidth Profiler
Break apart
Tim Burton
Conditional Actions
41. 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.
Data type
J. Stuart Blackton
Norman Mclaren
Event sounds
42. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Zoopraxiscope
Actions panel
Audience
Phenakistoscope
43. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
String variable
Number variable
Timeline
Anticipation
44. 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.
String variable
Stream sound
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Tween(ing)
45. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Library panel
24 frames
String variable
46. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Praxinoscope
Pixilation
Broadband
DSL
47. 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
Classes
UPA
Library panel
48. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Event Listener
Ray Harryhausen
HTML alignment
Flash Lite
49. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Device Central
Animation
Thaumatrope
50. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Instance
Multiplane Camera
Aardman Studios
Tripod