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Animation Basics

Subjects : it-skills, arts
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Something that should cause people to want to watch the movie






2. 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






3. The group of people you imagine will watch the end product that you create.






4. Looney Tunes (Hugh Harman - Rudy Ising - Fritz Freling) - Sinkin in the Bathtub (Bosko) It is now known as Warner Brothers.






5. The process of breaking apart text to place each character in a separate text block. The process of separating groups - instances - and bitmaps into ungrouped - of editable elements.






6. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.






7. An extremely fast Internet connection that is widely used by businesses.






8. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.






9. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.






10. 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.






11. An animation device - the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles Reynaud






12. Feline Follies - Felix Turns the Tide






13. Allows you to position the Flash movie window in the browser window.






14. NFB - Boogie Doodle - Begone Dull Care - Binkity Blank -






15. 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






16. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps






17. Allows you to view a graphical representation of the size of each frame and the frame-by-frame download process.






18. Is mounted above a series of cells - each containing separate elements of the scene.. Because the cells are mounted at varying distances from the camera - if it pans or moves toward them - an effect of motion perspective is created. This was invented






19. 1 second (default)






20. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.






21. Simple animation that starts in frame 1 and loops until the rest of the movie has been downloaded.






22. An action or set of actions that repeat as long as a condition exists.






23. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.






24. James and the Giant Peach - The Nightmare Before Christmas






25. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition






26. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)






27. Predefined blocks of ActionScript 3.0 code which provide a quick way to insert AS3 code into the Script pane.






28. Created theatre optique - hand cranked projectable device






29. Including another symbol within a symbol - such as nesting a graphic symbol - button or another movie clip symbol within a movie clip symbol.






30. Object on the stage that is used to provide interactivity - such as jumping to another frame on the Timeline.






31. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it






32. An Action Scrip 3.0 statement that executes a block of code in response to the event.






33. Is mounted above a series of cells - each containing separate elements of the scene.. Because the cells are mounted at varying distances from the camera - if it pans or moves toward them - an effect of motion perspective is created. This was invented






34. The process of changing one data type to another.






35. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.






36. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.






37. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame






38. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.






39. 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.






40. Circle with string attached to each slide with different images on each side. When spun it would created one image.






41. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps






42. A broadband Internet connection speed that is available through phone lines.






43. Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers - and Chicken Run.






44. Acceleration and deceleration refers to the tendency things have to start and stop moving gradually.






45. A program specifically developed to optimize the playing of Flash movies using mobile devices.






46. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.






47. 1 second (default)






48. To make changes by adding - deleting - or modifying text - graphics - or other items in a document






49. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?






50. Gumby - Davey and Goliath