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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)






2. 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)






3. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.






4. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.






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






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






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






8. Is mounted above a series of cells - each containing separate elements of the scene.. Because the cells are mounted at varying distances from the camera - if it pans or moves toward them - an effect of motion perspective is created. This was invented






9. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.






10. Pre-developed movie clips that can quickly add functionality to a movie by dragging and dropping them from the Components panel to the stage. Commonly used for creating forms with boxes for entering user data.






11. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.






12. The name of a work of art or movie etc.






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






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






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






16. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.






17. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps






18. The process of changing one data type to another.






19. Terminator 2






20. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.






21. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






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






23. King Kong

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24. Brings graphics into the library






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






26. 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






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






28. 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.






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






30. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.






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






32. Pre-developed movie clips that can quickly add functionality to a movie by dragging and dropping them from the Components panel to the stage. Commonly used for creating forms with boxes for entering user data.






33. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones






34. The process of changing one data type to another.






35. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.






36. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.






37. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






38. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.






39. Flattens out and elongate slightly






40. 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






41. 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






42. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -






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






44. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)






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






46. Graphic based on pixels






47. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.






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






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






50. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.