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Animation Basics
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1. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Persistance of Vision
Function
Walt Disney
Pixilation
2. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Bray Studios
Components
Scene
Peg Bar
3. Terminator 2
Winsor McCay
UPA
James Cameron
Exaggeration
4. Terminator 2
James Cameron
Anticipation
Frame
Broadband
5. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Event sounds
String variable
Casting
Number variable
6. Brings graphics into the library
Crossbar
Import to library
Check syntax
Tripod
7. Graphic based on pixels
Timing
Break apart
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Loader Component
8. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Winsor McCay
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Check syntax
Emile Reynaud
9. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Squash and Stretch
Onion Skin
Tween(ing)
Peg Bar
10. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Squash and Stretch
Button symbol
Loop
Persistance of Vision
11. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Squash and Stretch
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Stop-Motion
Tim Burton
12. 1 second (default)
Multiplane Camera
24 frames
Object
Nesting
13. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Loader Component
Device Central
Claymation
String variable
14. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Event sounds
Winsor McCay
Onion Skin
UPA
15. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Multiplane Camera
Script
Appeal
Event sounds
16. 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
Stream sound
Event sounds
Bandwidth Profiler
17. 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)
Scene
Rotoscoping
Max and Dave Fleischer
Tim Burton
18. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Aardman Studios
Loader Component
Instance
Animation
19. 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
Phenakistoscope
Praxinoscope
Props
Anti-aliasing
20. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Max and Dave Fleischer
Flipbook
Anti-aliasing
21. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Tripod
Check syntax
Instance
AddChild
22. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Tex Avery
Flash Lite
Event sounds
Animated graphic symbol
23. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Classes
Publish
Pixilation
Dynamic text field
24. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Property
Animation
Exaggeration
25. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pre-loader
Onion Skin
26. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Rotoscoping
Pixar
Data type
Max and Dave Fleischer
27. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Walt Disney
Storyboard
Praxinoscope
Event sounds
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.
Stream sound
Cel
Frame
Break apart
29. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Flipbook
Ray Harryhausen
Timeline
Frame
30. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Increment Action
Schlesinger Studios
Import
Rotoscoping
31. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Classes
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Tween(ing)
Pixar
32. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Import to library
DSL
Import
Cel
33. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
T1
Onion Skin
Ray Harryhausen
Peter Jackson
34. 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
Casting
Multiplane Camera
Limited Animation
Nesting
35. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Loop
Title
Animated graphic symbol
Willis O'Brien
36. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Zoopraxiscope
Conditional Actions
Scene
Script
37. Fantasmagorie
Audience
Pixilation
Emile Cohl
Multiplane Camera
38. 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.
Flash Lite
Increment Action
Chuck Jones
Broadband
39. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Pre-loader
Movie clip symbol
Actions panel
Appeal
40. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Expressions
Graphic Symbols
Ease In and Ease out
41. 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.
Peg Bar
T1
Components
Norman Mclaren
42. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Event Listener
Thaumatrope
Chuck Jones
Peter Jackson
43. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Storyboard
Flipbook
Praxinoscope
44. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Thaumatrope
Methods
String variable
Anticipation
45. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Property
Walt Disney
Cue points
Broadband
46. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Claymation
Animated graphic symbol
Anticipation
String variable
47. 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.
Peg Bar
Phenakistoscope
HTML alignment
Vector graphic
48. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Claymation
Zoopraxiscope
Import to library
49. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Components
Cel
Animated graphic symbol
Stop-Motion
50. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Magic Lantern
James Cameron
Stream sound