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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Broadband
Scene
Onion Skin
AddChild
2. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Movie clip symbol
Function
Magic Lantern
Tween(ing)
3. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Decrement Action
DSL
Script
4. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Pre-loader
Methods
Norman Mclaren
Import
5. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Loop
Tim Burton
Exaggeration
6. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Onion Skin
Event Listener
Conditional Actions
Loop
7. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Title
J. Stuart Blackton
Appeal
Tex Avery
8. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Import to library
String variable
Emile Reynaud
9. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Tween(ing)
UPA
Import to stage
Onion Skin
10. Scenery hung at back of stage
Vector graphic
Pre-loader
Decrement Action
Background
11. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Conditional Actions
Data type
Cue points
Stream sound
12. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Squash and Stretch
Stop-Motion
Winsor McCay
Frame
13. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Instance
Publish
Publish
Pixilation
14. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Zoopraxiscope
Check syntax
Device Central
Storyboard
15. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Import
T1
Expressions
Exaggeration
16. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Rotoscoping
Chuck Jones
Data type
Nesting
17. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Pixilation
HTML alignment
Edit
Vector graphic
18. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Tripod
HTML alignment
Components
19. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Import to library
Import
Dynamic text field
Broadband
20. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Walt Disney
AddChild
Increment Action
Loop
21. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Chuck Jones
Peg Bar
Stop-Motion
String variable
22. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Casting
Actions panel
Animated graphic symbol
Chuck Jones
23. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Broadband
Tim Burton
Flipbook
Classes
24. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Schlesinger Studios
Pre-loader
Pixilation
Methods
25. 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.
Limited Animation
Peter Jackson
Event Listener
Actions panel
26. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
Otto Messmer
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Button symbol
27. Scenery hung at back of stage
Object
Scene
Background
Code snippets
28. Fantasmagorie
Methods
Audience
Emile Cohl
Chuck Jones
29. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
DSL
Parent-child relationship
Scene
Flash Lite
30. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Theatre Optique
Movie clip symbol
Aardman Studios
Zoopraxiscope
31. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Bandwidth Profiler
Magic Lantern
Break apart
Stream sound
32. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Object
Bandwidth Profiler
Stop-Motion
Peg Bar
33. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Magic Lantern
Rotoscoping
Magic Lantern
34. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Tween(ing)
Otto Messmer
Exaggeration
Aardman Studios
35. 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.
Loader Component
Emile Reynaud
Pre-loader
Vector graphic
36. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Tripod
Storyboard
Increment Action
Crossbar
37. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Appeal
Pixar
Zoopraxiscope
38. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Loader Component
Claymation
Increment Action
Props
39. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Import
Walt Disney
Event Listener
Increment Action
40. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Otto Messmer
Publish
UPA
Pre-loader
41. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Props
Storyboard
Import
Credits
42. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Phenakistoscope
Library panel
Loader Component
Flipbook
43. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Zoopraxiscope
Animation
Property
Theatre Optique
44. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Animation
AddChild
Tween(ing)
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
45. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Norman Mclaren
Audience
Actions panel
Rotoscoping
46. Created by Eadweard Muybridge. May be considered the first movie projector. Projected images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion
Zoopraxiscope
Event Listener
Thaumatrope
Credits
47. 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
Storyboard
Stream sound
Thaumatrope
Timing
48. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Tex Avery
Anti-aliasing
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Timing
49. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Phenakistoscope
Zoopraxiscope
Classes
Library panel
50. 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.
Event sounds
Persistance of Vision
Tim Burton
Audience