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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Timeline
Rotoscoping
Aardman Studios
Limited Animation
2. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Winsor McCay
Cue points
Conditional Actions
Methods
3. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Pixilation
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Scene
Winsor McCay
4. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Anti-aliasing
Expressions
Title
Stream sound
5. Fantasmagorie
Timing
Number variable
Winsor McCay
Emile Cohl
6. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Button symbol
Stop-Motion
Library panel
7. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Nesting
Import to stage
Aardman Studios
8. 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.
Multiplane Camera
Ease In and Ease out
Norman Mclaren
Vector graphic
9. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Trace
Rotoscoping
Check syntax
Thaumatrope
10. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Variable
Broadband
Crossbar
Check syntax
11. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Claymation
HTML alignment
Function
12. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Stop-Motion
Norman Mclaren
Animation
13. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
DSL
Credits
Import to stage
HTML alignment
14. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Movie clip symbol
Device Central
Persistance of Vision
Magic Lantern
15. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
HTML alignment
Norman Mclaren
Stream sound
UPA
16. 1 second (default)
Tripod
Peg Bar
24 frames
Increment Action
17. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Actions panel
Peter Jackson
Willis O'Brien
DSL
18. 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.
Onion Skin
Data type
Event sounds
Actions panel
19. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Bray Studios
Audience
Components
Multiplane Camera
20. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Bray Studios
Ray Harryhausen
Conditional Actions
Nesting
21. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
T1
Tex Avery
Conditional Actions
Zoetrope
22. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Anticipation
Walt Disney
Onion Skin
Norman Mclaren
23. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Pre-loader
String variable
Emile Cohl
Check syntax
24. 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
Otto Messmer
Object
Onion Skin
25. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Property
Code snippets
Magic Lantern
26. 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
Scene
Squash and Stretch
Stop-Motion
27. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Exaggeration
Pixar
Instance
Property
28. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Schlesinger Studios
Property
29. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Event Listener
String variable
Emile Cohl
30. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Decrement Action
Ease In and Ease out
T1
Credits
31. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Import
Function
Scene
Function
32. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Background
Ease In and Ease out
James Cameron
33. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Movie clip symbol
Decrement Action
Device Central
Otto Messmer
34. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Methods
Timeline
Title
Decrement Action
35. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Storyboard
Code snippets
Walt Disney
36. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Pixilation
Max and Dave Fleischer
Title
Props
37. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Thaumatrope
Schlesinger Studios
Import to stage
Animation
38. Brings graphics into the library
Classes
Import to library
Graphic Symbols
Background
39. 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)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Scene
Anti-aliasing
40. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Import to stage
Schlesinger Studios
Norman Mclaren
41. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Emile Reynaud
Claymation
Event Listener
Timeline
42. Items - such as drawings and text - that are placed on the Stage and can be edited and manipulated. In ActionScript 3.0 - an instance of a class that inherits the attributes and functionality of a class.
Loop
Title
Scene
Object
43. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Limited Animation
Praxinoscope
Peg Bar
Stop-Motion
44. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Trace
Anti-aliasing
Pixilation
Norman Mclaren
45. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Anti-aliasing
Winsor McCay
Object
Crossbar
46. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Zoetrope
Tween(ing)
Tim Burton
Ray Harryhausen
47. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
AddChild
Broadband
Tim Burton
Data type
48. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Theatre Optique
Timing
Peter Jackson
Actions panel
49. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Ease In and Ease out
HTML alignment
Keyframe
Animation
50. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Scene
AddChild
Cel
Actions panel