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Animation Basics
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1. 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.
24 frames
Limited Animation
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Onion Skin
2. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Nesting
Increment Action
Number variable
Frame
3. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Timeline
Import to stage
Import to library
Conditional Actions
4. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Pre-loader
Bray Studios
Flipbook
Hanna -Barbera
5. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Praxinoscope
T1
Loader Component
Timeline
6. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Bray Studios
Movie clip symbol
Dynamic text field
Cel
7. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Classes
Peter Jackson
Function
Peg Bar
8. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Scene
Button symbol
Onion Skin
Button symbol
9. Scenery hung at back of stage
Thaumatrope
Check syntax
Exaggeration
Background
10. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Animation
Theatre Optique
Anti-aliasing
Audience
11. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Walt Disney
Peter Jackson
Graphic Symbols
Classes
12. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud
UPA
Event Listener
Vector graphic
Praxinoscope
13. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Chuck Jones
Zoetrope
Keyframe
Variable
14. The process of changing one data type to another.
Library panel
Audience
Casting
Norman Mclaren
15. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Data type
Claymation
AddChild
Import to library
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.
Timing
Praxinoscope
Persistance of Vision
Import to stage
17. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Vector graphic
Schlesinger Studios
Movie clip symbol
18. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Tex Avery
UPA
Limited Animation
Publish
19. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Title
Button symbol
Theatre Optique
HTML alignment
20. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Max and Dave Fleischer
Vector graphic
Classes
Methods
21. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Loop
Methods
Data type
Pixilation
22. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Rotoscoping
Variable
Broadband
Multiplane Camera
23. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Flash Lite
Tripod
Emile Reynaud
24. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Function
Vector graphic
Library panel
Dynamic text field
25. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.
Bandwidth Profiler
J. Stuart Blackton
Peg Bar
Scene
26. An ActionScript operator - indicated by two minus signs - that subtracts 1 unit from a variable or expression.
Crossbar
Onion Skin
Aardman Studios
Decrement Action
27. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Graphic Symbols
Willis O'Brien
Frame
HTML alignment
28. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Props
Event sounds
Zoetrope
AddChild
29. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Timing
Anti-aliasing
Claymation
Willis O'Brien
30. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Nesting
Data type
Peg Bar
Tex Avery
31. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Norman Mclaren
James Cameron
Cel
Otto Messmer
32. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Stop-Motion
Actions panel
DSL
String variable
33. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Script
J. Stuart Blackton
Phenakistoscope
Anti-aliasing
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
Library panel
Zoopraxiscope
Tripod
Device Central
35. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Pixar
UPA
Theatre Optique
Dynamic text field
36. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Frame
DSL
UPA
Publish
37. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
HTML alignment
Animation
Frame
Title
38. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Ray Harryhausen
Bray Studios
Credits
Object
39. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Animation
Multiplane Camera
Anti-aliasing
Flash Lite
40. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Methods
UPA
Multiplane Camera
Decrement Action
41. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Nesting
Keyframe
Script
Frame
42. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Persistance of Vision
Theatre Optique
HTML alignment
Animated graphic symbol
43. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Norman Mclaren
Emile Cohl
Broadband
Tex Avery
44. 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.
Schlesinger Studios
Event sounds
Vector graphic
Import to library
45. Tool for planning visual media like animation - video and even websites.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Loader Component
Storyboard
Variable
46. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Bray Studios
Storyboard
Broadband
Library panel
47. 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
Increment Action
Timing
Anti-aliasing
Dynamic text field
48. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Art Clokey
Flash Lite
Publish
Data type
49. 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.
Squash and Stretch
Zoopraxiscope
Stream sound
Trace
50. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Emile Cohl
Peter Jackson
Break apart
Animation