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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






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






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






5. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. Fantasmagorie






14. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.






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






16. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones






17. 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.






18. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.






19. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.






20. To bring information into a computer or computer program






21. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.






22. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.






23. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)






24. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.






25. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






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






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






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






29. King Kong

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30. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)






31. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.






32. 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.






33. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.






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






35. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood






36. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






37. Fantasmagorie






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






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






40. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud






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






42. 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






43. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.






44. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.






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






46. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts






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






48. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.






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






50. Graphic based on pixels