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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Loop
Loader Component
Graphic Symbols
Graphic Symbols
2. 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
Tim Burton
Loop
Multiplane Camera
Persistance of Vision
3. 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.
Event sounds
Magic Lantern
Function
Timing
4. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Limited Animation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Loop
UPA
5. Fantasmagorie
Emile Cohl
Tim Burton
Peg Bar
Walt Disney
6. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Anticipation
Emile Reynaud
Exaggeration
Instance
7. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Art Clokey
24 frames
Import to library
AddChild
8. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Willis O'Brien
Data type
Aardman Studios
9. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Import to stage
Winsor McCay
Casting
Actions panel
10. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Timing
Flipbook
Import to stage
Dynamic text field
11. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Background
Import to library
Bandwidth Profiler
Peg Bar
12. ActionScript that tests whether or not certain conditions have been met and - if so - can perform other actions.
Code snippets
Conditional Actions
Tween(ing)
Dynamic text field
13. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Variable
Anti-aliasing
Flipbook
Dynamic text field
14. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Storyboard
Winsor McCay
Methods
Break apart
15. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Tripod
Theatre Optique
Parent-child relationship
Appeal
16. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Anticipation
Timeline
Publish
Anti-aliasing
17. 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
Publish
Timing
24 frames
Stream sound
18. Brings graphics into the library
Import to library
Aardman Studios
Cel
Stop-Motion
19. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Loop
Break apart
Cue points
20. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Zoetrope
Stream sound
Audience
21. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Art Clokey
Movie clip symbol
Break apart
Props
22. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Ray Harryhausen
Check syntax
Chuck Jones
Bray Studios
23. 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.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Animated graphic symbol
Stream sound
Flipbook
24. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Thaumatrope
Tween(ing)
Actions panel
25. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Title
Flash Lite
Actions panel
26. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Edit
Event Listener
Background
27. 1 second (default)
Parent-child relationship
Title
24 frames
Willis O'Brien
28. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
Cue points
Emile Cohl
Device Central
Ray Harryhausen
29. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Property
Publish
Casting
DSL
30. 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
Tex Avery
Function
Bandwidth Profiler
31. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Conditional Actions
Frame
James Cameron
Title
32. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Casting
Peg Bar
Classes
33. 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
James Cameron
Vector graphic
Tim Burton
34. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Emile Cohl
Anticipation
Cel
Magic Lantern
35. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Actions panel
Scene
UPA
Chuck Jones
36. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Winsor McCay
Increment Action
Break apart
Function
37. Graphic based on pixels
Edit
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Hanna -Barbera
24 frames
38. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Limited Animation
Praxinoscope
Device Central
39. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Import
T1
Import
40. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Props
Ray Harryhausen
Components
Animation
41. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Frame
Stream sound
Flipbook
Components
42. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Appeal
Crossbar
Data type
Pre-loader
43. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Props
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Zoopraxiscope
Zoetrope
44. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Movie clip symbol
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Flash Lite
Claymation
45. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Onion Skin
Movie clip symbol
Norman Mclaren
Script
46. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Ease In and Ease out
Actions panel
T1
Phenakistoscope
47. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Increment Action
Hanna -Barbera
Graphic Symbols
Anticipation
48. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Pixilation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Loader Component
Timing
49. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Check syntax
Claymation
Cel
Flash Lite
50. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
T1
Anticipation
Anticipation