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Animation Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
Movie clip symbol
Anticipation
Magic Lantern
2. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Thaumatrope
Norman Mclaren
Flash Lite
Import to stage
3. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Bray Studios
Audience
Schlesinger Studios
Import
4. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Stop-Motion
Hanna -Barbera
Pre-loader
Variable
5. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Flipbook
T1
Appeal
Storyboard
6. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Pre-loader
AddChild
Art Clokey
7. 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)
Library panel
Increment Action
Max and Dave Fleischer
Function
8. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Publish
Trace
Timeline
24 frames
9. A type of data transmission - such as DSL and cable - in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit more information at the same time.
Dynamic text field
Dynamic text field
Broadband
Flash Lite
10. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Vector graphic
Event Listener
Property
Chuck Jones
11. Terminator 2
Broadband
Timeline
Exaggeration
James Cameron
12. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Anticipation
Actions panel
Zoopraxiscope
Instance
13. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Instance
Thaumatrope
Ray Harryhausen
Event Listener
14. A type of data transmission - such as DSL and cable - in which a wide band of frequencies is available to transmit more information at the same time.
Hanna -Barbera
Broadband
Function
Pixilation
15. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Multiplane Camera
Property
Event Listener
Hanna -Barbera
16. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Peter Jackson
Magic Lantern
Tex Avery
Winsor McCay
17. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
Event sounds
Zoopraxiscope
Walt Disney
18. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Bandwidth Profiler
Audience
UPA
HTML alignment
19. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Claymation
24 frames
Multiplane Camera
20. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Frame
Import to stage
String variable
Exaggeration
21. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Zoetrope
Object
Anti-aliasing
Bray Studios
22. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Code snippets
Actions panel
Crossbar
Instance
23. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Parent-child relationship
Edit
T1
24. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Peter Jackson
Cue points
Zoetrope
Props
25. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Phenakistoscope
Expressions
Ease In and Ease out
Title
26. 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
Rotoscoping
Norman Mclaren
Onion Skin
27. 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
Storyboard
Parent-child relationship
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
AddChild
28. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Background
Number variable
Tex Avery
Hanna -Barbera
29. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Phenakistoscope
Loop
Graphic Symbols
Increment Action
30. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Property
Keyframe
Decrement Action
Check syntax
31. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Tween(ing)
Device Central
Anticipation
Check syntax
32. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.
Credits
Instance
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Ease In and Ease out
33. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
AddChild
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
J. Stuart Blackton
Aardman Studios
34. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
Praxinoscope
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
24 frames
Variable
35. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Pre-loader
Decrement Action
Tex Avery
Anticipation
36. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Norman Mclaren
Exaggeration
Property
Ray Harryhausen
37. 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
Tripod
Timing
Limited Animation
Zoetrope
38. 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
Thaumatrope
Persistance of Vision
Pre-loader
Zoopraxiscope
39. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Stream sound
Zoetrope
Edit
Break apart
40. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
UPA
Expressions
Magic Lantern
Zoopraxiscope
41. Brings graphics into the library
Parent-child relationship
Bandwidth Profiler
Nesting
Import to library
42. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Audience
HTML alignment
Cel
43. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Graphic Symbols
Otto Messmer
Anti-aliasing
Tween(ing)
44. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
Props
Graphic Symbols
Library panel
45. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Anticipation
Aardman Studios
Willis O'Brien
Loop
46. 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
Variable
Dynamic text field
Phenakistoscope
Check syntax
47. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Increment Action
String variable
Props
Winsor McCay
48. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Walt Disney
Pixar
Trace
49. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Claymation
Praxinoscope
Bray Studios
Pixar
50. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Zoetrope
Classes
Magic Lantern
Credits