Test your basic knowledge |

Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The process of changing one data type to another.






2. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.






3. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.






4. 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






5. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.






6. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.






7. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.






8. 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.






9. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.






10. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.






11. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.






12. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.






13. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)






14. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie






15. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)






16. King Kong

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


17. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie






18. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.






19. Terminator 2






20. Graphic based on pixels






21. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.






22. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






23. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document






24. 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)






25. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.






26. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.






27. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.






28. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera






29. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.






30. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.






31. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.






32. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.






33. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.






34. 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.






35. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






36. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.






37. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations






38. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.






39. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)






40. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






41. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine






42. Fantasmagorie






43. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document






44. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.






45. 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






46. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird






47. 1 second (default)






48. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






49. 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






50. Brings graphics into the library