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Animation Basics
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it-skills
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Spins images on paper in rotating drum; 1834; early motion-picture machine
Limited Animation
Nesting
Flash Lite
Zoetrope
2. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
String variable
Import to library
Thaumatrope
Theatre Optique
3. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Anti-aliasing
Button symbol
Thaumatrope
Onion Skin
4. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Emile Cohl
Timing
Loader Component
J. Stuart Blackton
5. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Graphic Symbols
Ease In and Ease out
Device Central
Anticipation
6. Terminator 2
Walt Disney
Background
James Cameron
Loop
7. 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
James Cameron
Theatre Optique
Onion Skin
8. 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
Button symbol
Limited Animation
Zoopraxiscope
Stream sound
9. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.
Check syntax
Increment Action
UPA
T1
10. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
J. Stuart Blackton
Tripod
Chuck Jones
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
11. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
Increment Action
Background
DSL
Library panel
12. 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)
Appeal
Max and Dave Fleischer
Nesting
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
13. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device
Emile Reynaud
Increment Action
Timeline
Increment Action
14. Indicates the class used to populate the variable.
Data type
Number variable
Timeline
Publish
15. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.
Tim Burton
Classes
Code snippets
Peter Jackson
16. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Aardman Studios
Pixar
Loop
Title
17. Editable copies of symbols that are placed on the Stage.
Instance
Audience
Willis O'Brien
Multiplane Camera
18. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Frame
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Publish
Anticipation
19. Flattens out and elongate slightly
Squash and Stretch
Tripod
Ray Harryhausen
Art Clokey
20. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.
DSL
Claymation
Frame
Theatre Optique
21. This is a good way to emphasis to certain movements and thereby draw attention where you want it.
Exaggeration
Tween(ing)
Casting
Tim Burton
22. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Background
Import to stage
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Script
23. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Scene
Data type
Event sounds
Audience
24. 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)
Max and Dave Fleischer
Object
AddChild
Credits
25. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Actions panel
AddChild
Tween(ing)
Object
26. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.
Stop-Motion
Increment Action
Tex Avery
Schlesinger Studios
27. The part of the animation program window that organizes and controls an animation's content over time using layers and frames.
Praxinoscope
Tripod
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Timeline
28. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
UPA
Code snippets
Storyboard
Anticipation
29. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
24 frames
Publish
Device Central
Flash Lite
30. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Peg Bar
DSL
Crossbar
Frame
31. An animation process in which frames are created between the keyframes that are needed to create the illusion of movement.
Anticipation
Tween(ing)
Bray Studios
Methods
32. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Rotoscoping
Pixilation
Art Clokey
Script
33. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (Trolley Troubles) - end up abandoning Oswald - becomes Mickey (created by Iwerks)
Tim Burton
James Cameron
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Walt Disney
34. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
AddChild
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Otto Messmer
Chuck Jones
35. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Decrement Action
Peg Bar
Import to stage
James Cameron
36. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Increment Action
Thaumatrope
Exaggeration
Ease In and Ease out
37. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Credits
Graphic Symbols
Thaumatrope
Device Central
38. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Keyframe
Variable
AddChild
Data type
39. The panel that contains the objects that are used in a Flash movie.
Variable
Emile Reynaud
Library panel
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
40. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.
Norman Mclaren
Animated graphic symbol
Timeline
Nesting
41. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Pixar
Ray Harryhausen
Appeal
Variable
42. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -
Schlesinger Studios
Norman Mclaren
Peg Bar
Persistance of Vision
43. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Components
J. Stuart Blackton
HTML alignment
Stream sound
44. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Norman Mclaren
Button symbol
Animated graphic symbol
Onion Skin
45. One of a series of still photographs on a strip of film used in making movies or animations
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Frame
Instance
DSL
46. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Methods
Dynamic text field
Tim Burton
Components
47. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Animation
Check syntax
Number variable
Magic Lantern
48. To bring information into a computer or computer program
Property
Import to stage
Import
Zoopraxiscope
49. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Multiplane Camera
Hanna -Barbera
Pre-loader
Movie clip symbol
50. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Movie clip symbol
Bray Studios
Button symbol
Classes