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Animation Basics
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1. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Publish
AddChild
James Cameron
2. 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
Loop
Anti-aliasing
Function
3. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Pre-loader
Tex Avery
Data type
4. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Script
Thaumatrope
Publish
Timing
5. 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
Timing
Tween(ing)
Pixilation
Parent-child relationship
6. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Loader Component
Parent-child relationship
Walt Disney
Tripod
7. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Cue points
Stream sound
Persistance of Vision
Ease In and Ease out
8. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Increment Action
Frame
Object
Loop
9. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Persistance of Vision
Crossbar
Bandwidth Profiler
Storyboard
10. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
Import
Zoetrope
Cel
11. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Art Clokey
Hanna -Barbera
Methods
Aardman Studios
12. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Number variable
Flash Lite
Tex Avery
13. 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
Art Clokey
Bandwidth Profiler
Appeal
14. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Publish
Props
Button symbol
UPA
15. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Ray Harryhausen
Check syntax
Animated graphic symbol
16. Graphic based on pixels
Import to library
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Animated graphic symbol
Thaumatrope
17. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Flipbook
Walt Disney
Thaumatrope
18. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Object
Function
Emile Reynaud
Button symbol
19. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Ray Harryhausen
Tween(ing)
Background
Loader Component
20. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Aardman Studios
Praxinoscope
Event sounds
Loader Component
21. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Nesting
Claymation
Break apart
Variable
22. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Zoopraxiscope
Aardman Studios
Aardman Studios
Flash Lite
23. 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.
Zoopraxiscope
Max and Dave Fleischer
Vector graphic
Peg Bar
24. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
James Cameron
Otto Messmer
Limited Animation
25. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Casting
Decrement Action
Crossbar
26. 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.
Art Clokey
Otto Messmer
Parent-child relationship
Break apart
27. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Emile Reynaud
Zoopraxiscope
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Zoetrope
28. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Cel
Methods
Vector graphic
Animated graphic symbol
29. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Crossbar
Trace
Art Clokey
Magic Lantern
30. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Decrement Action
Import to library
Cel
Zoetrope
31. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Loader Component
Event Listener
Publish
Flash Lite
32. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
J. Stuart Blackton
Flash Lite
Storyboard
Emile Reynaud
33. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Winsor McCay
Ease In and Ease out
Object
Increment Action
34. Graphic based on pixels
Casting
Pre-loader
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
J. Stuart Blackton
35. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
UPA
Data type
Import to stage
Expressions
36. 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
Broadband
James Cameron
Multiplane Camera
Norman Mclaren
37. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Emile Reynaud
Norman Mclaren
Dynamic text field
Decrement Action
38. 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.
Claymation
DSL
Anti-aliasing
Object
39. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Stop-Motion
Props
Max and Dave Fleischer
Peg Bar
40. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Emile Cohl
Keyframe
Praxinoscope
Methods
41. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Dynamic text field
Otto Messmer
Edit
Appeal
42. 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.
Loop
Event sounds
Button symbol
Stop-Motion
43. 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.
Vector graphic
Classes
T1
Peg Bar
44. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Max and Dave Fleischer
Cel
Loop
Rotoscoping
45. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
UPA
Audience
DSL
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
46. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Code snippets
Anticipation
Import
Aardman Studios
47. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Crossbar
T1
Thaumatrope
48. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
AddChild
Cel
Peg Bar
Cel
49. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Art Clokey
Theatre Optique
Thaumatrope
HTML alignment
50. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Number variable
Code snippets
Zoetrope
Import