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Animation Basics
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1. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Cel
Decrement Action
Emile Reynaud
2. 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
Peg Bar
Phenakistoscope
Ease In and Ease out
Parent-child relationship
3. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Tripod
Number variable
Peg Bar
Tween(ing)
4. 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
Edit
Script
Multiplane Camera
Decrement Action
5. 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.
Loader Component
Limited Animation
Break apart
Exaggeration
6. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Cue points
DSL
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Components
7. 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.
Frame
Timing
Vector graphic
HTML alignment
8. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Decrement Action
Function
T1
Trace
9. 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
Emile Cohl
Function
Decrement Action
10. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Anticipation
T1
Parent-child relationship
Props
11. Scenery hung at back of stage
Background
Pixilation
24 frames
Animation
12. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Animated graphic symbol
Data type
Onion Skin
Tim Burton
13. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Anti-aliasing
Crossbar
Movie clip symbol
14. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Theatre Optique
Emile Reynaud
Norman Mclaren
24 frames
15. 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
Magic Lantern
Broadband
AddChild
16. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Break apart
Peg Bar
Art Clokey
Conditional Actions
17. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
J. Stuart Blackton
Edit
Pixar
Theatre Optique
18. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Check syntax
Walt Disney
Dynamic text field
Data type
19. 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
Zoetrope
Conditional Actions
Number variable
20. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Flash Lite
Multiplane Camera
Exaggeration
Animation
21. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Classes
Magic Lantern
Property
Scene
22. Fantasmagorie
Storyboard
Emile Cohl
Schlesinger Studios
Dynamic text field
23. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Chuck Jones
Zoopraxiscope
Ray Harryhausen
24. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
HTML alignment
Dynamic text field
Chuck Jones
Credits
25. Terminator 2
Property
James Cameron
Background
Dynamic text field
26. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Pixilation
Code snippets
Publish
Movie clip symbol
27. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Object
Rotoscoping
Bandwidth Profiler
Credits
28. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Persistance of Vision
Timeline
Norman Mclaren
Cel
29. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Rotoscoping
Chuck Jones
Storyboard
Animation
30. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Animation
Aardman Studios
Cue points
Phenakistoscope
31. 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)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Appeal
Loader Component
Broadband
32. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Timeline
Art Clokey
Decrement Action
Event sounds
33. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Cel
Anti-aliasing
Squash and Stretch
Dynamic text field
34. 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
Conditional Actions
Function
Ray Harryhausen
35. Brings graphics into the library
Expressions
Import
Import to library
Hanna -Barbera
36. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.
Appeal
Rotoscoping
Pre-loader
Norman Mclaren
37. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Import
Anti-aliasing
Code snippets
Nesting
38. 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
Tripod
Event Listener
Hanna -Barbera
39. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Max and Dave Fleischer
Limited Animation
Squash and Stretch
J. Stuart Blackton
40. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Cue points
Classes
Decrement Action
Magic Lantern
41. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Theatre Optique
Schlesinger Studios
Flash Lite
Code snippets
42. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Crossbar
Expressions
24 frames
43. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Nesting
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
String variable
Frame
44. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Persistance of Vision
Otto Messmer
Exaggeration
45. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Peter Jackson
Dynamic text field
Hanna -Barbera
Schlesinger Studios
46. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Decrement Action
AddChild
Tim Burton
Bandwidth Profiler
47. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Storyboard
Thaumatrope
Timing
AddChild
48. Graphic based on pixels
String variable
Zoetrope
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Tim Burton
49. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Appeal
Anticipation
Ease In and Ease out
DSL
50. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Code snippets
Audience
Ray Harryhausen
Chuck Jones