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Animation Basics
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1. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Conditional Actions
Bray Studios
Graphic Symbols
Credits
2. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Squash and Stretch
HTML alignment
Rotoscoping
3. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Willis O'Brien
Function
Edit
Bandwidth Profiler
4. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Otto Messmer
Flash Lite
Classes
Audience
5. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Cue points
Anti-aliasing
Zoetrope
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
6. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Button symbol
Storyboard
Property
Exaggeration
7. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
UPA
Schlesinger Studios
Props
Flash Lite
8. 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.
Variable
Onion Skin
Bandwidth Profiler
Event sounds
9. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Broadband
Winsor McCay
Methods
Animated graphic symbol
10. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Parent-child relationship
Tim Burton
Instance
Appeal
11. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Loader Component
Button symbol
Theatre Optique
Props
12. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
String variable
Animation
Walt Disney
Anticipation
13. 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
Art Clokey
Trace
Tween(ing)
14. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Hanna -Barbera
Publish
Schlesinger Studios
Zoetrope
15. Brings graphics into the library
Art Clokey
Timing
Import to library
Parent-child relationship
16. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Frame
Aardman Studios
Property
DSL
17. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Crossbar
Object
Animation
18. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Components
Pixar
Thaumatrope
Zoetrope
19. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
Scene
Animated graphic symbol
Components
20. The process of turning a bitmap image into vector paths for animation and other purposes.
Trace
Object
Nesting
Ray Harryhausen
21. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Publish
HTML alignment
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Magic Lantern
22. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Object
Loader Component
Increment Action
Pixar
23. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Onion Skin
Methods
Praxinoscope
Flash Lite
24. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Ease In and Ease out
Tex Avery
Import to stage
Norman Mclaren
25. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Property
Nesting
Decrement Action
Aardman Studios
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.
Praxinoscope
Title
Keyframe
Break apart
27. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Tex Avery
Import to stage
James Cameron
Broadband
28. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Anticipation
UPA
Expressions
DSL
29. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Scene
Hanna -Barbera
Function
Multiplane Camera
30. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Animated graphic symbol
Stop-Motion
Components
Timeline
31. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Nesting
Conditional Actions
HTML alignment
J. Stuart Blackton
32. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Decrement Action
Thaumatrope
Keyframe
Number variable
33. The process of changing one data type to another.
Bray Studios
Background
Audience
Casting
34. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Pixar
Expressions
Animation
Storyboard
35. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Stop-Motion
Pixar
Emile Reynaud
Art Clokey
36. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Animated graphic symbol
Background
Peg Bar
37. 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.
Crossbar
UPA
Classes
Event sounds
38. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Peg Bar
Squash and Stretch
Object
Timeline
39. 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
Animated graphic symbol
Exaggeration
Event Listener
40. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Components
Cue points
Device Central
41. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Classes
Break apart
Conditional Actions
Increment Action
42. Brings graphics into the library
Otto Messmer
DSL
Thaumatrope
Import to library
43. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Pre-loader
Chuck Jones
Norman Mclaren
Animation
44. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Number variable
DSL
Keyframe
Title
45. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Exaggeration
Crossbar
Parent-child relationship
Peg Bar
46. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Publish
Norman Mclaren
Appeal
Code snippets
47. 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.
Limited Animation
Break apart
Ray Harryhausen
Claymation
48. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Device Central
Pixilation
DSL
Nesting
49. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Rotoscoping
Actions panel
Trace
Button symbol
50. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Otto Messmer
Ray Harryhausen
HTML alignment
HTML alignment
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