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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Event sounds
Animated graphic symbol
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Graphic Symbols
2. The process of changing one data type to another.
Script
Casting
Max and Dave Fleischer
UPA
3. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Emile Cohl
Broadband
Props
Appeal
4. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Methods
Tex Avery
Thaumatrope
Conditional Actions
5. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Scene
Props
Bray Studios
Cue points
6. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Components
Tim Burton
Persistance of Vision
Frame
7. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Loader Component
Publish
Background
8. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Tex Avery
Components
Break apart
9. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Event sounds
Chuck Jones
Bandwidth Profiler
Button symbol
10. 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.
Credits
Publish
Loop
Stream sound
11. 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.
Number variable
Import to stage
Animated graphic symbol
Break apart
12. 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.
Broadband
Thaumatrope
Animated graphic symbol
Otto Messmer
13. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Data type
Willis O'Brien
Loader Component
Anticipation
14. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Exaggeration
Pixilation
Pixar
Art Clokey
15. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Pixar
Device Central
Thaumatrope
Conditional Actions
16. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Function
Onion Skin
Function
17. 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
Appeal
Credits
Frame
Timing
18. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Props
Walt Disney
Loader Component
Pixar
19. Graphic based on pixels
Library panel
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Multiplane Camera
Publish
20. Terminator 2
Vector graphic
Ray Harryhausen
James Cameron
Peg Bar
21. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Dynamic text field
Max and Dave Fleischer
Anticipation
Peg Bar
22. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
HTML alignment
Thaumatrope
Classes
Scene
23. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Timeline
Aardman Studios
Trace
Bandwidth Profiler
24. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Winsor McCay
Event sounds
Methods
Rotoscoping
25. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Expressions
Scene
Button symbol
Persistance of Vision
26. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Thaumatrope
Loop
Peter Jackson
Function
27. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Storyboard
Number variable
Art Clokey
Script
28. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Zoetrope
Pixilation
Publish
Increment Action
29. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Appeal
Actions panel
Code snippets
24 frames
30. 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.
Import
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Parent-child relationship
Vector graphic
31. Brings graphics into the library
Bray Studios
Anticipation
String variable
Import to library
32. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
String variable
Limited Animation
Code snippets
Emile Reynaud
33. Terminator 2
James Cameron
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Tween(ing)
Walt Disney
34. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
HTML alignment
Peg Bar
Magic Lantern
35. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Schlesinger Studios
Property
Chuck Jones
Audience
36. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Flipbook
Casting
Chuck Jones
Theatre Optique
37. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Nesting
Aardman Studios
Import to stage
Timeline
38. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Edit
Praxinoscope
Broadband
Anticipation
39. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Title
AddChild
UPA
Bray Studios
40. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Data type
Number variable
Stream sound
Bandwidth Profiler
41. Brings graphics into the library
Movie clip symbol
Animated graphic symbol
Import to library
Import to stage
42. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Emile Cohl
Hanna -Barbera
Code snippets
43. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
String variable
Button symbol
Frame
Components
44. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
James Cameron
HTML alignment
Animation
Magic Lantern
45. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Loader Component
Tex Avery
Edit
Onion Skin
46. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Frame
Number variable
Tripod
Data type
47. 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.
Actions panel
Object
Tween(ing)
Cel
48. 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
Button symbol
Ray Harryhausen
Zoopraxiscope
Dynamic text field
49. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Import
T1
Graphic Symbols
Multiplane Camera
50. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Pre-loader
Tripod
Import