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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. 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
Loader Component
James Cameron
Pixilation
2. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Edit
Decrement Action
Hanna -Barbera
Schlesinger Studios
3. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Hanna -Barbera
Emile Reynaud
Check syntax
Nesting
4. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Squash and Stretch
Otto Messmer
Limited Animation
5. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
Object
Code snippets
Timeline
6. 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.
Audience
Vector graphic
Data type
Bandwidth Profiler
7. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Scene
Check syntax
Loop
Increment Action
8. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
Multiplane Camera
Conditional Actions
Appeal
9. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Emile Reynaud
Methods
Graphic Symbols
DSL
10. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Animated graphic symbol
Thaumatrope
Bray Studios
11. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Otto Messmer
Expressions
Movie clip symbol
Crossbar
12. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Increment Action
Theatre Optique
Claymation
Event Listener
13. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Conditional Actions
Title
HTML alignment
14. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Library panel
String variable
Schlesinger Studios
Pixar
15. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
String variable
Anticipation
Willis O'Brien
Pre-loader
16. 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
Willis O'Brien
Zoopraxiscope
Pre-loader
Cue points
17. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Timing
Exaggeration
Audience
18. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Library panel
Number variable
Conditional Actions
19. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Anticipation
Title
Button symbol
Credits
20. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Animated graphic symbol
Keyframe
Ease In and Ease out
Zoetrope
21. Terminator 2
Library panel
Variable
James Cameron
Tween(ing)
22. Brings graphics into the library
String variable
Crossbar
AddChild
Import to library
23. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Pixilation
James Cameron
J. Stuart Blackton
Loop
24. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Peg Bar
Otto Messmer
Audience
Pixilation
25. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Number variable
Instance
Tim Burton
Object
26. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Function
Device Central
Parent-child relationship
HTML alignment
27. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Broadband
Schlesinger Studios
Claymation
Emile Reynaud
28. 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.
Phenakistoscope
Vector graphic
Crossbar
Pixilation
29. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Tim Burton
Background
Stream sound
Tex Avery
30. 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
Ease In and Ease out
Parent-child relationship
Credits
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
31. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Peg Bar
Squash and Stretch
Import to library
HTML alignment
32. Created rotoscoping - The Tantalizing Fly (Koko the Clown) - Dizzy Dishes - Minnie the Moocher(Betty Boop) - Popeye (Popeye Meets Sinbad) - Superman series - Gulliver's Travels (first animated feature not from Disney)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Aardman Studios
Frame
Onion Skin
33. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Timeline
Otto Messmer
Number variable
Vector graphic
34. The process of changing one data type to another.
Exaggeration
Casting
Flipbook
Property
35. Fantasmagorie
Expressions
Nesting
Bray Studios
Emile Cohl
36. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Property
Pixar
Loader Component
Movie clip symbol
37. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Property
Anti-aliasing
Onion Skin
Multiplane Camera
38. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Loader Component
Nesting
Cue points
39. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Script
Movie clip symbol
Parent-child relationship
T1
40. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Exaggeration
Object
Persistance of Vision
41. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Squash and Stretch
Timing
Peg Bar
Import
42. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Timing
Anticipation
Trace
Anticipation
43. 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
Parent-child relationship
Cel
Classes
Cel
44. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
T1
Schlesinger Studios
Stop-Motion
Check syntax
45. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Willis O'Brien
Pixar
Event sounds
HTML alignment
46. Graphic based on pixels
Zoetrope
Walt Disney
Tex Avery
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
47. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Claymation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Button symbol
48. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Loop
Animated graphic symbol
James Cameron
Onion Skin
49. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Credits
Thaumatrope
Theatre Optique
Walt Disney
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.
Decrement Action
Import
Tween(ing)
Stream sound