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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. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Increment Action
Anti-aliasing
Timeline
Peg Bar
2. A text box created on the Stage with the Text tool that displays information derived from variables.
Check syntax
UPA
Dynamic text field
Stop-Motion
3. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Event Listener
HTML alignment
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Publish
4. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie
Scene
Appeal
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
J. Stuart Blackton
5. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Components
Instance
Persistance of Vision
Button symbol
6. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.
Components
Variable
Loop
Broadband
7. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.
Flash Lite
Anticipation
Pre-loader
Data type
8. 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.
Onion Skin
Tim Burton
Instance
Limited Animation
9. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Title
Claymation
Frame
Zoetrope
10. Checks for any errors in the syntax of the coding.
Object
Tex Avery
Check syntax
Tex Avery
11. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Pixilation
Conditional Actions
Zoetrope
Claymation
12. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide
Persistance of Vision
Otto Messmer
Graphic Symbols
Anticipation
13. Gumby - Davey and Goliath
Winsor McCay
Cue points
Audience
Art Clokey
14. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Anti-aliasing
Cel
Check syntax
Button symbol
15. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
Pre-loader
Function
Chuck Jones
16. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.
Decrement Action
UPA
Audience
Pixar
17. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
J. Stuart Blackton
Edit
Anticipation
Graphic Symbols
18. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Device Central
Increment Action
Number variable
Audience
19. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Instance
Classes
James Cameron
Crossbar
20. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Casting
Animated graphic symbol
Flipbook
Property
21. Brings graphics into the library
Thaumatrope
Import to library
Tex Avery
Keyframe
22. Alignment for hand drawings. Standard for holes to line up drawings for an animation. It was invented by Raoul Barre in 1915.
Variable
Anti-aliasing
Import
Peg Bar
23. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Anti-aliasing
Pixilation
Chuck Jones
UPA
24. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Pixilation
Anti-aliasing
Classes
Winsor McCay
25. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Frame
Emile Cohl
Script
Movie clip symbol
26. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
Credits
Limited Animation
Rotoscoping
Otto Messmer
27. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Vector graphic
J. Stuart Blackton
Title
Number variable
28. The process used to generate the files necessary for delivering Flash movies on the web - such as swf and HTML files.
Publish
T1
Animation
Timing
29. A component that can load external jpg graphic files and swf movie files
Increment Action
Loader Component
Max and Dave Fleischer
J. Stuart Blackton
30. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Broadband
Animated graphic symbol
Publish
31. Terminator 2
James Cameron
Loader Component
Flash Lite
Squash and Stretch
32. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Timing
Device Central
Peg Bar
33. Sequence of images drawn page-by-page
Increment Action
Flipbook
Art Clokey
Pixilation
34. In ActionScript 3.0 the functionality of an object - that is - what it can do.
Property
Methods
Audience
Zoetrope
35. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Otto Messmer
J. Stuart Blackton
Theatre Optique
Schlesinger Studios
36. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document
Edit
24 frames
Button symbol
Peg Bar
37. 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.
Rotoscoping
Graphic Symbols
Onion Skin
Limited Animation
38. 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.
Tripod
Phenakistoscope
DSL
Broadband
39. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
24 frames
Animation
Cue points
Flash Lite
40. The process of smoothing the edges of a graphic so they appear less jagged.
Tween(ing)
Graphic Symbols
Check syntax
Anti-aliasing
41. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.
Edit
HTML alignment
Import to library
Limited Animation
42. A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)
Theatre Optique
Library panel
T1
Credits
43. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Limited Animation
Nesting
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Flash Lite
44. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.
Button symbol
Timeline
Ease In and Ease out
Tim Burton
45. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Theatre Optique
Nesting
Graphic Symbols
Title
46. A feature that enables you to view the contents of multiple frames onscreen at the same time.
Animation
Onion Skin
Cue points
Multiplane Camera
47. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.
Thaumatrope
Art Clokey
Anti-aliasing
Zoetrope
48. Allows you to test Flash movies on various models of mobile devices.
Import
T1
Button symbol
Device Central
49. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cue points
Components
Cel
Animated graphic symbol
50. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Cue points
Loop
Methods
Bray Studios