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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 panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
Publish
Willis O'Brien
T1
2. 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
Art Clokey
Classes
Check syntax
3. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Code snippets
Stop-Motion
Vector graphic
Function
4. 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.
Stream sound
T1
Cue points
Praxinoscope
5. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Publish
Animation
Tripod
Magic Lantern
6. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Casting
Emile Reynaud
Squash and Stretch
Emile Cohl
7. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Button symbol
Limited Animation
Decrement Action
Chuck Jones
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
Hanna -Barbera
Data type
Parent-child relationship
Animated graphic symbol
9. 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.
Expressions
Broadband
Art Clokey
Audience
10. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Decrement Action
Aardman Studios
Parent-child relationship
Winsor McCay
11. The process of changing one data type to another.
Methods
Casting
Props
Actions panel
12. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Data type
Magic Lantern
Classes
Library panel
13. Is mounted above a series of cells - each containing separate elements of the scene.. Because the cells are mounted at varying distances from the camera - if it pans or moves toward them - an effect of motion perspective is created. This was invented
Dynamic text field
Multiplane Camera
Tween(ing)
Persistance of Vision
14. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Peg Bar
Publish
Zoopraxiscope
Persistance of Vision
15. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Casting
Praxinoscope
Vector graphic
Aardman Studios
16. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Zoopraxiscope
Methods
Zoetrope
Pixar
17. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Limited Animation
String variable
Trace
Art Clokey
18. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Instance
Emile Reynaud
Emile Cohl
Components
19. 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.
Number variable
Vector graphic
Timing
Audience
20. 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
T1
Schlesinger Studios
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Timing
21. King Kong
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22. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Pre-loader
HTML alignment
Ray Harryhausen
Ease In and Ease out
23. 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.
Flash Lite
Library panel
Stop-Motion
Event sounds
24. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Animation
String variable
AddChild
Pre-loader
25. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
DSL
Timeline
Winsor McCay
Credits
26. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Dynamic text field
Anti-aliasing
Event Listener
Variable
27. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Library panel
Function
28. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Dynamic text field
Zoopraxiscope
Actions panel
Audience
29. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Animation
Vector graphic
Components
Art Clokey
30. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Device Central
Magic Lantern
Ray Harryhausen
Components
31. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Decrement Action
Event Listener
Conditional Actions
Timing
32. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Aardman Studios
Peter Jackson
Limited Animation
Norman Mclaren
33. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Pre-loader
Dynamic text field
Limited Animation
Praxinoscope
34. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Peter Jackson
Pixilation
Event Listener
Conditional Actions
35. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Expressions
Art Clokey
Squash and Stretch
36. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Pre-loader
Flipbook
Event Listener
Components
37. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Timeline
Tex Avery
Schlesinger Studios
Willis O'Brien
38. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Credits
Otto Messmer
Thaumatrope
39. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
J. Stuart Blackton
Timeline
UPA
Object
40. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Button symbol
Data type
Anticipation
Movie clip symbol
41. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Timeline
Timing
Zoetrope
Casting
42. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Ray Harryhausen
Cel
Import to library
Persistance of Vision
43. 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.
Stream sound
Emile Reynaud
Winsor McCay
Code snippets
44. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Event sounds
T1
Appeal
Classes
45. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Vector graphic
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Norman Mclaren
Frame
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
Aardman Studios
Walt Disney
Zoopraxiscope
HTML alignment
47. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Anti-aliasing
Flipbook
Nesting
Function
48. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Tripod
Publish
Hanna -Barbera
Edit
49. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Theatre Optique
Thaumatrope
Library panel
Hanna -Barbera
50. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
Anticipation
Library panel
24 frames