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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Event sounds
Dynamic text field
Anticipation
DSL
2. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Button symbol
Onion Skin
Willis O'Brien
Increment Action
3. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Title
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Import to stage
Loader Component
4. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Decrement Action
Variable
T1
Frame
5. 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.
Publish
Broadband
Graphic Symbols
Appeal
6. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Crossbar
Graphic Symbols
Variable
Vector graphic
7. 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.
James Cameron
Limited Animation
Zoopraxiscope
Storyboard
8. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Trace
Import to library
Classes
Keyframe
9. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Ease In and Ease out
Import to stage
Thaumatrope
Magic Lantern
10. Scenery hung at back of stage
Function
Loop
Import to stage
Background
11. 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.
J. Stuart Blackton
Components
Timeline
Number variable
12. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Broadband
Cel
Decrement Action
24 frames
13. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Zoopraxiscope
Emile Cohl
Instance
Thaumatrope
14. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Crossbar
Scene
Praxinoscope
Methods
15. The process of breaking apart text to place each character in a separate text block. The process of separating groups - instances - and bitmaps into ungrouped - of editable elements.
Break apart
Loop
Phenakistoscope
Tripod
16. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Tex Avery
Frame
Zoopraxiscope
James Cameron
17. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Break apart
Anticipation
Classes
18. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Publish
Persistance of Vision
Broadband
19. 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
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Button symbol
Credits
Parent-child relationship
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
Timeline
Timing
Animation
Credits
21. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Loader Component
Variable
Import to stage
Title
22. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Movie clip symbol
Broadband
Graphic Symbols
James Cameron
23. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Multiplane Camera
T1
Peter Jackson
Emile Reynaud
24. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Cel
Data type
Zoetrope
Props
25. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Event Listener
Peg Bar
Magic Lantern
Script
26. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Squash and Stretch
Stop-Motion
Conditional Actions
Import to stage
27. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Otto Messmer
Onion Skin
Tripod
28. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Anti-aliasing
Tripod
Code snippets
Theatre Optique
29. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Flash Lite
Expressions
Frame
30. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Anticipation
Theatre Optique
Edit
31. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Library panel
Credits
Anticipation
Decrement Action
32. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Flash Lite
Title
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Exaggeration
33. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Ray Harryhausen
Appeal
Broadband
Code snippets
34. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Check syntax
Exaggeration
Walt Disney
Rotoscoping
35. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Stream sound
Willis O'Brien
Data type
36. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Peter Jackson
Loader Component
Dynamic text field
Decrement Action
37. 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.
Bray Studios
Object
Import
Credits
38. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Increment Action
Flash Lite
Casting
39. 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.
Aardman Studios
Schlesinger Studios
Credits
Event sounds
40. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Movie clip symbol
Bandwidth Profiler
Animated graphic symbol
41. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Tween(ing)
AddChild
Expressions
42. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Animation
Magic Lantern
Walt Disney
Vector graphic
43. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Dynamic text field
Check syntax
Instance
Appeal
44. The process of changing one data type to another.
Zoetrope
J. Stuart Blackton
Peg Bar
Casting
45. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Script
Import to stage
Frame
46. Fantasmagorie
Tim Burton
Phenakistoscope
Emile Cohl
Vector graphic
47. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Variable
Import to library
Peter Jackson
Schlesinger Studios
48. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Art Clokey
Number variable
Increment Action
Button symbol
49. Brings graphics into the library
Emile Cohl
Storyboard
Import to library
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
50. 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)
Bandwidth Profiler
Max and Dave Fleischer
Movie clip symbol
AddChild