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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






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






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






4. 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






5. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps






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






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






8. 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






9. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud






10. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.






11. Fantasmagorie






12. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.






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






14. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.






15. 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.






16. 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






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






18. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)






19. Brings graphics directly onto the stage






20. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.






21. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it






22. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.






23. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas






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






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






26. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.






27. The process of changing one data type to another.






28. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie






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






30. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.






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






32. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files






33. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps






34. Fantasmagorie






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas






38. 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






39. 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.






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






41. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






42. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.






43. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.






44. 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.






45. To bring information into a computer or computer program






46. Flattens out and elongate slightly






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






48. The name of a work of art or movie etc.






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






50. 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.