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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. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Ray Harryhausen
Library panel
Ray Harryhausen
Flash Lite
2. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Loader Component
Bandwidth Profiler
AddChild
Ray Harryhausen
3. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Zoopraxiscope
Schlesinger Studios
Appeal
J. Stuart Blackton
4. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Cel
Import
Code snippets
Dynamic text field
5. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Scene
Nesting
Function
Instance
6. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Movie clip symbol
Code snippets
Title
Function
7. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Publish
Tim Burton
Onion Skin
8. ActionScript 3.0 code that defines the attributes and functionality of an object.
Classes
Publish
Keyframe
Event Listener
9. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Theatre Optique
Hanna -Barbera
Publish
Property
10. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Props
Ray Harryhausen
Loop
Vector graphic
11. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Actions panel
AddChild
Flash Lite
Event sounds
12. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
String variable
Components
Property
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.
Vector graphic
Winsor McCay
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Object
14. 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.
Code snippets
Limited Animation
T1
Pixar
15. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Parent-child relationship
Art Clokey
Tim Burton
Button symbol
16. A small part of the overall story such as the introduction of a character or conflict.
Import to library
Praxinoscope
Scene
Max and Dave Fleischer
17. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Movie clip symbol
Methods
Keyframe
Theatre Optique
18. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
HTML alignment
Magic Lantern
Persistance of Vision
Stream sound
19. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Crossbar
Loader Component
Break apart
Methods
20. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Variable
Stream sound
Limited Animation
Rotoscoping
21. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Frame
Check syntax
Graphic Symbols
Pre-loader
22. Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck - Droopy - Screwy Squirrel - Porky Pig - Chilly Willy - Red Hot Riding Hood
Graphic Symbols
Tex Avery
Walt Disney
Number variable
23. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Edit
Publish
DSL
Theatre Optique
24. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Graphic Symbols
Aardman Studios
Chuck Jones
25. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Otto Messmer
Dynamic text field
Expressions
Methods
26. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Dynamic text field
Button symbol
Anti-aliasing
Anti-aliasing
27. Is the rapid display of images in a specific order that give the illusion of movement.
Parent-child relationship
Movie clip symbol
Animation
Increment Action
28. The process of changing one data type to another.
Aardman Studios
Casting
Code snippets
Pixilation
29. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Break apart
Ray Harryhausen
Audience
Vector graphic
30. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Art Clokey
Import to stage
Anticipation
Willis O'Brien
31. 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.
Script
Broadband
Chuck Jones
Increment Action
32. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton
Event Listener
Edit
Otto Messmer
33. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Anticipation
Exaggeration
Schlesinger Studios
Background
34. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Zoetrope
Tween(ing)
Frame
Tex Avery
35. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
T1
Data type
Limited Animation
Object
36. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Instance
DSL
Code snippets
Edit
37. 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
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Tripod
Bray Studios
38. Brings graphics directly onto the stage
Magic Lantern
Anti-aliasing
Import to stage
Thaumatrope
39. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Emile Reynaud
Peter Jackson
Animated graphic symbol
Components
40. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Flash Lite
Break apart
Peg Bar
Winsor McCay
41. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Anti-aliasing
J. Stuart Blackton
Frame
DSL
42. The method for adding objects to be visible on the screen in ActionScript.
Break apart
AddChild
Audience
Check syntax
43. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Schlesinger Studios
Walt Disney
T1
Phenakistoscope
44. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Onion Skin
Onion Skin
Claymation
45. Scooby Doo -The Jetsons -and The Flintstones
Hanna -Barbera
Credits
Expressions
Expressions
46. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Storyboard
Willis O'Brien
Zoetrope
Function
47. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Ray Harryhausen
Art Clokey
Library panel
Multiplane Camera
48. Terminator 2
Squash and Stretch
James Cameron
Parent-child relationship
Pixar
49. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Ease In and Ease out
Crossbar
Frame
Function
50. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Tween(ing)
Methods
Animated graphic symbol
Movie clip symbol