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Animation Basics
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1. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Limited Animation
Stop-Motion
Emile Reynaud
Stop-Motion
2. Graphic based on pixels
Aardman Studios
Limited Animation
Emile Cohl
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
3. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Classes
Audience
Onion Skin
Movie clip symbol
4. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Event sounds
Cel
Components
Background
5. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Publish
Winsor McCay
Tween(ing)
Import to stage
6. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Import to stage
Anticipation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
7. 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
Emile Cohl
Data type
Crossbar
8. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Methods
String variable
Check syntax
Winsor McCay
9. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Instance
Onion Skin
Ray Harryhausen
Zoetrope
10. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Tripod
Tween(ing)
Animated graphic symbol
Onion Skin
11. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
AddChild
Edit
Background
Dynamic text field
12. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Broadband
Title
Persistance of Vision
Pixar
13. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Limited Animation
Increment Action
Max and Dave Fleischer
Ease In and Ease out
14. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Anti-aliasing
Stop-Motion
Peter Jackson
Check syntax
15. 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
24 frames
Squash and Stretch
Willis O'Brien
16. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Claymation
Function
Pixilation
Event sounds
17. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Break apart
24 frames
Peter Jackson
Persistance of Vision
18. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Expressions
Property
Event Listener
Squash and Stretch
19. Brings graphics into the library
Import to library
Stop-Motion
Classes
HTML alignment
20. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Scene
Ray Harryhausen
Vector graphic
Pre-loader
21. Brings graphics into the library
Actions panel
Animation
Pixar
Import to library
22. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Cel
Function
Increment Action
Loader Component
23. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Casting
DSL
Instance
24. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Flash Lite
DSL
Loader Component
Variable
25. 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.
Vector graphic
Timing
Anti-aliasing
Loop
26. 1 second (default)
Storyboard
Object
24 frames
Willis O'Brien
27. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Keyframe
Stop-Motion
AddChild
Appeal
28. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Appeal
Persistance of Vision
Peter Jackson
Dynamic text field
29. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Animation
Anticipation
Chuck Jones
Import
30. 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
Pre-loader
Praxinoscope
Otto Messmer
31. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Property
Walt Disney
Emile Reynaud
Frame
32. 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
Increment Action
Timing
Tripod
Object
33. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Increment Action
DSL
Instance
Peter Jackson
34. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Crossbar
Instance
Hanna -Barbera
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
35. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Squash and Stretch
Magic Lantern
Title
HTML alignment
36. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Willis O'Brien
Property
Event sounds
Animation
37. 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
Library panel
Zoopraxiscope
Multiplane Camera
Actions panel
38. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Crossbar
Bray Studios
Decrement Action
Stream sound
39. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Frame
Background
Import
40. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Audience
Hanna -Barbera
Rotoscoping
Credits
41. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Object
Increment Action
Emile Reynaud
42. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Classes
24 frames
Dynamic text field
43. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Conditional Actions
Praxinoscope
Hanna -Barbera
Crossbar
44. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Animation
Classes
Crossbar
Emile Reynaud
45. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Storyboard
Classes
Expressions
Animated graphic symbol
46. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Loader Component
Timeline
Decrement Action
Object
47. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Vector graphic
Theatre Optique
Components
Tim Burton
48. Scenery hung at back of stage
Methods
Animation
Increment Action
Background
49. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Trace
Timeline
UPA
50. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Squash and Stretch
Bray Studios
Trace
Background