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Animation Basics
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Pre-loader
Emile Cohl
Theatre Optique
Script
2. 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)
Frame
Audience
Theatre Optique
Max and Dave Fleischer
3. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Anti-aliasing
Function
Emile Cohl
4. 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.
Bandwidth Profiler
Background
Loader Component
Limited Animation
5. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Tween(ing)
Import to stage
Zoopraxiscope
6. Brings graphics into the library
Loader Component
Crossbar
Import to library
HTML alignment
7. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Tripod
Property
24 frames
Chuck Jones
8. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Increment Action
Components
Zoetrope
Appeal
9. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Animation
Keyframe
Expressions
Chuck Jones
10. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Hanna -Barbera
Import to stage
Number variable
Ease In and Ease out
11. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Tween(ing)
Library panel
Squash and Stretch
12. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Dynamic text field
Increment Action
Edit
Components
13. 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.
Credits
Timeline
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Break apart
14. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Object
Flipbook
Cue points
Squash and Stretch
15. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Phenakistoscope
Library panel
Timing
16. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
J. Stuart Blackton
Scene
Script
Function
17. 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.
Thaumatrope
Loop
Library panel
Break apart
18. 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
Import to stage
Broadband
Ray Harryhausen
19. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Trace
Import
Property
Zoopraxiscope
20. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Code snippets
Pre-loader
Aardman Studios
Winsor McCay
21. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Walt Disney
Expressions
Background
Exaggeration
22. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Hanna -Barbera
Exaggeration
Ease In and Ease out
Library panel
23. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Instance
Loop
Squash and Stretch
Actions panel
24. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Ray Harryhausen
Bray Studios
Emile Reynaud
Squash and Stretch
25. 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.
Pixilation
Vector graphic
Cel
Flash Lite
26. 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
Theatre Optique
DSL
Zoopraxiscope
Device Central
27. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Anti-aliasing
Squash and Stretch
Code snippets
Tim Burton
28. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Library panel
Chuck Jones
Function
Art Clokey
29. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Flash Lite
Flipbook
Flash Lite
Title
30. 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
Casting
24 frames
Multiplane Camera
Tween(ing)
31. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Norman Mclaren
Timeline
Button symbol
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
32. 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.
Magic Lantern
Expressions
Loop
Broadband
33. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Bandwidth Profiler
Script
Break apart
Data type
34. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Exaggeration
Event Listener
Limited Animation
Frame
35. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Chuck Jones
Onion Skin
UPA
36. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Rotoscoping
James Cameron
Graphic Symbols
37. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Increment Action
Peg Bar
Peter Jackson
Willis O'Brien
38. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Ease In and Ease out
Import to library
AddChild
Library panel
39. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Instance
Stop-Motion
Squash and Stretch
Nesting
40. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Flash Lite
Publish
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Event Listener
41. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Persistance of Vision
Flipbook
Methods
Animated graphic symbol
42. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Emile Reynaud
Peg Bar
Timeline
43. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Actions panel
Tween(ing)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Peg Bar
44. 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
Import to library
Import to library
Theatre Optique
45. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Ease In and Ease out
Code snippets
Tween(ing)
J. Stuart Blackton
46. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Bray Studios
Flash Lite
Tim Burton
Title
47. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Thaumatrope
Bray Studios
Ease In and Ease out
Emile Reynaud
48. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Crossbar
Art Clokey
Willis O'Brien
49. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Classes
Pixilation
Components
Multiplane Camera
50. 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
Multiplane Camera
Background
Button symbol
Ease In and Ease out