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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Brings graphics into the library






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






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






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






5. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. Scenery hung at back of stage






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.






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






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






20. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.






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






22. Graphic based on pixels






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






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






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






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






27. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition






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






29. 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






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






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






32. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






33. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.






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






35. 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.






36. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones






37. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






38. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.






39. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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