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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Persistance of Vision
Title
Increment Action
Data type
2. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
String variable
Break apart
Button symbol
UPA
3. 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
Parent-child relationship
T1
Magic Lantern
Praxinoscope
4. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Ease In and Ease out
Components
Storyboard
Tween(ing)
5. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Conditional Actions
J. Stuart Blackton
Increment Action
Credits
6. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Property
Import
Background
Persistance of Vision
7. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Animated graphic symbol
Anticipation
Multiplane Camera
Event sounds
8. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Chuck Jones
Methods
Magic Lantern
UPA
9. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Persistance of Vision
Thaumatrope
Onion Skin
Walt Disney
10. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Bray Studios
Pixilation
Event Listener
11. A type of data transmission - such as DSL and cable - in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit more information at the same time.
Broadband
Movie clip symbol
Vector graphic
Property
12. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
String variable
Props
Tripod
Decrement Action
13. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Casting
Import to stage
Function
Graphic Symbols
14. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Function
Title
Max and Dave Fleischer
Increment Action
15. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Peter Jackson
Stream sound
Function
Walt Disney
16. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Zoetrope
Actions panel
Norman Mclaren
Tim Burton
17. 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.
Claymation
Event sounds
Instance
DSL
18. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Pixar
Animated graphic symbol
Schlesinger Studios
Components
19. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Components
Chuck Jones
Nesting
Dynamic text field
20. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Audience
Keyframe
Variable
Animated graphic symbol
21. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Theatre Optique
Edit
Limited Animation
Multiplane Camera
22. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
UPA
Limited Animation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Cue points
23. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Cel
AddChild
Library panel
Zoopraxiscope
24. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Methods
Number variable
Onion Skin
Walt Disney
25. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Trace
Check syntax
Vector graphic
Walt Disney
26. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Schlesinger Studios
Button symbol
Property
Tim Burton
27. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Audience
Components
Components
28. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Emile Reynaud
Props
Claymation
Title
29. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Import
Library panel
Appeal
Hanna -Barbera
30. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Props
Keyframe
Timing
AddChild
31. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Event Listener
Thaumatrope
Timeline
Frame
32. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Ray Harryhausen
Tex Avery
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Animation
33. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Device Central
Peter Jackson
Cue points
Claymation
34. A type of data transmission - such as DSL and cable - in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit more information at the same time.
Check syntax
Broadband
Code snippets
Decrement Action
35. 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.
String variable
Emile Cohl
Event sounds
Expressions
36. 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.
Object
Casting
Parent-child relationship
Peg Bar
37. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Components
J. Stuart Blackton
24 frames
Zoopraxiscope
38. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Flipbook
Thaumatrope
Pixilation
Exaggeration
39. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Multiplane Camera
Button symbol
Timeline
HTML alignment
40. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Claymation
Squash and Stretch
Graphic Symbols
41. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Anticipation
Crossbar
Bandwidth Profiler
Button symbol
42. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Bandwidth Profiler
Property
Timing
Tripod
43. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Max and Dave Fleischer
Otto Messmer
Stream sound
Background
44. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
UPA
Tim Burton
Otto Messmer
Decrement Action
45. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Zoopraxiscope
Animation
Flash Lite
Stream sound
46. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Animated graphic symbol
Phenakistoscope
Rotoscoping
Code snippets
47. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Parent-child relationship
Appeal
Decrement Action
UPA
48. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Casting
Bandwidth Profiler
Event Listener
Timing
49. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Loop
Peg Bar
String variable
Break apart
50. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Number variable
Schlesinger Studios
Willis O'Brien
Ray Harryhausen