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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.






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






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






4. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.






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






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






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






8. A description of the hierarchical relationship that develops between nested symbols - especially nested movie clip symbols. When you insert a movie clip inside another movie clip - the inserted clip is considered the child and the original clip is th






9. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.






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






11. 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






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






13. Flattens out and elongate slightly






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






15. 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.






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






17. A sound that is tied to the Timeline. No matter its length - a streaming sound stops at the end of the movie. Can start palying as they download.






18. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story






19. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.






20. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.






21. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story






22. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.






23. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?






24. 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.






25. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






26. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.






27. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






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






29. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.






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






31. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.






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






33. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.






34. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






35. Fantasmagorie






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






37. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.






38. 1 second (default)






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






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






41. To bring information into a computer or computer program






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.






48. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine






49. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.






50. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine