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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Event sounds
Expressions
AddChild
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
2. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
J. Stuart Blackton
Scene
Classes
Loop
3. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Movie clip symbol
Ray Harryhausen
Onion Skin
4. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Variable
Animated graphic symbol
Peter Jackson
Emile Cohl
5. 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.
Hanna -Barbera
Tex Avery
Peter Jackson
Stream sound
6. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Crossbar
Animation
Timing
7. Brings graphics into the library
Graphic Symbols
Number variable
Import to library
DSL
8. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Trace
Ray Harryhausen
Device Central
Audience
9. 1 second (default)
Title
J. Stuart Blackton
Emile Cohl
24 frames
10. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Publish
Anti-aliasing
Library panel
Background
11. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Walt Disney
Background
Tripod
Loader Component
12. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Aardman Studios
Storyboard
Event sounds
Emile Reynaud
13. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Variable
Nesting
Casting
Anticipation
14. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Appeal
Components
Variable
Thaumatrope
15. 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
Squash and Stretch
Phenakistoscope
Pixilation
Keyframe
16. 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
James Cameron
Props
Event sounds
17. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Aardman Studios
Function
Peg Bar
Claymation
18. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Frame
James Cameron
Tween(ing)
Pre-loader
19. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Import to library
Classes
Phenakistoscope
Norman Mclaren
20. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Stream sound
Scene
Graphic Symbols
Exaggeration
21. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Tween(ing)
Timeline
Animated graphic symbol
Cel
22. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Tex Avery
Background
Conditional Actions
Break apart
23. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Loop
Audience
Timeline
24. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Otto Messmer
Nesting
Data type
Tween(ing)
25. 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
Zoopraxiscope
Loop
Check syntax
Cue points
26. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Anti-aliasing
Multiplane Camera
Magic Lantern
Loader Component
27. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Squash and Stretch
Cel
Art Clokey
Appeal
28. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
String variable
Tween(ing)
Movie clip symbol
29. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Function
Decrement Action
Device Central
30. The process of changing one data type to another.
Limited Animation
Nesting
Casting
Norman Mclaren
31. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Loader Component
Animated graphic symbol
Event Listener
Peter Jackson
32. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Movie clip symbol
Import to library
Squash and Stretch
Keyframe
33. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Thaumatrope
Zoetrope
Squash and Stretch
Graphic Symbols
34. King Kong
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35. 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
Object
Movie clip symbol
Audience
36. 1 second (default)
Tripod
Data type
Limited Animation
24 frames
37. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Praxinoscope
Tex Avery
Event sounds
Button symbol
38. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Import to stage
Stop-Motion
Bray Studios
Scene
39. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Crossbar
Praxinoscope
Casting
Winsor McCay
40. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Tween(ing)
Cue points
Decrement Action
Flipbook
41. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Storyboard
Import to stage
Flash Lite
Check syntax
42. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Components
Code snippets
Peg Bar
Casting
43. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Squash and Stretch
Audience
Instance
Multiplane Camera
44. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
James Cameron
Credits
J. Stuart Blackton
UPA
45. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Event Listener
J. Stuart Blackton
Otto Messmer
Flash Lite
46. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Graphic Symbols
Button symbol
Movie clip symbol
Squash and Stretch
47. 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.
Increment Action
Zoopraxiscope
Classes
Vector graphic
48. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Storyboard
Peter Jackson
Credits
Walt Disney
49. 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
Rotoscoping
Check syntax
Ease In and Ease out
50. 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
Norman Mclaren
HTML alignment
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Parent-child relationship