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Animation Basics
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1. 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.
Actions panel
Cue points
Object
Otto Messmer
2. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of clay characters - moving the characters slightly between each shot.
Anticipation
Claymation
Movie clip symbol
Art Clokey
3. An ActionScript operator - indicated by ++ that adds 1 unit to a variable or expression.
Title
Increment Action
Ray Harryhausen
Schlesinger Studios
4. Two Towers (Gollum) - King Kong remake (2005)
Nesting
Peter Jackson
Actions panel
String variable
5. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Edit
Property
Winsor McCay
Event Listener
6. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Hanna -Barbera
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Graphic Symbols
Check syntax
7. Is a type of stop-motion animation that photographs people to give the illusion of seemingly impossible actions.
Multiplane Camera
James Cameron
Pixilation
Bitmap (Raster) graphic
8. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Ray Harryhausen
Tripod
Magic Lantern
Chuck Jones
9. A moving picture show presented by Charles-Emile Reynaud in 1892. It was the first presentation of projected moving images to an audience.
Dynamic text field
Theatre Optique
Nesting
Import to stage
10. Mighty Joe Young - 7th Voyage of Sinbad - Jason and the Argonauts
Animation
Function
Ray Harryhausen
Flipbook
11. The name of a work of art or movie etc.
Classes
Anticipation
Pixilation
Title
12. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Import to library
Pixar
Bandwidth Profiler
Appeal
13. In ActionScript - a variable type that contains a number with which you can use arithmetic operators - such as addition and subtraction.
Number variable
Winsor McCay
Willis O'Brien
Peter Jackson
14. John Lasseter founding member - The Adventures of Andre and Wally B - The Great Mouse Detective (Disney Released) - Luxo Jr - Tin Toy - Toy Story
Pixar
Storyboard
Tim Burton
Exaggeration
15. Projection device consisting of a light source and a magnifying lens. Used with still transparencies.
Magic Lantern
Aardman Studios
Willis O'Brien
Frame
16. Fantasmagorie
Emile Cohl
Methods
Property
Function
17. Gertie the Dinosaur and Little Nemo (character from a well-known newspaper comic)
Flipbook
Publish
Tween(ing)
Winsor McCay
18. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
Tripod
Audience
Persistance of Vision
Pixar
19. Formulas for manipulating or evaluating the information in variables.
Expressions
Object
Vector graphic
AddChild
20. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (the first cartoon using chalk drawing and cut-outs)
Instance
Norman Mclaren
J. Stuart Blackton
Multiplane Camera
21. Brings graphics into the library
Import to library
Variable
Broadband
Decrement Action
22. 1 second (default)
24 frames
Max and Dave Fleischer
Winsor McCay
Import to stage
23. 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
Multiplane Camera
Bandwidth Profiler
Phenakistoscope
Animation
24. 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.
Peter Jackson
Vector graphic
Limited Animation
Willis O'Brien
25. The ability of the human eye to keep an image in view for a split second after the image has been removed from sight.
Code snippets
Import to stage
Ease In and Ease out
Persistance of Vision
26. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Movie clip symbol
Conditional Actions
Zoetrope
Persistance of Vision
27. An attribute of an object such as its size or color.
Flash Lite
Pre-loader
Property
Zoopraxiscope
28. It occurs after an action - and is the direct physical result of it
Script
Props
Appeal
Anticipation
29. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Broadband
Check syntax
Data type
Props
30. Indicators on the video timeline that can be used in ActionScript.
String variable
DSL
Crossbar
Cue points
31. Is a made by tracing over live-action film movement frame by frame
T1
Loader Component
Rotoscoping
Import
32. 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.
Movie clip symbol
Stream sound
Methods
Broadband
33. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
J. Stuart Blackton
Graphic Symbols
Keyframe
Squash and Stretch
34. A written version of a play or other dramatic composition
Peter Jackson
Script
Hanna -Barbera
Graphic Symbols
35. The panel where you create and edit Action Scrip code for an object or a frame.
Otto Messmer
Tex Avery
Actions panel
Storyboard
36. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the Library panel. It has it own Timeline - independent of the main Timeline.
Chuck Jones
Movie clip symbol
Anticipation
Hanna -Barbera
37. Is a type of animation made by drawing pictures on to a clear plastic sheet one by one.
Cel
Animated graphic symbol
Casting
Schlesinger Studios
38. A container that holds information and is used in ActionScript code.
Hanna -Barbera
Property
Variable
Squash and Stretch
39. Complex Bugs and Daffy work - created Pepe LePeu - Road Runner - Wile E. Coyote - What's Opera Doc?
Title
Chuck Jones
Rotoscoping
DSL
40. Influenced by Jones' The Dover Boys. John Hubley; Gerald McBoing-Boing - Rooty Toot Toot - The Tell-Tale Heart - Moonbird
Edit
UPA
Zoetrope
Onion Skin
41. Is a type of animation made by taking photos of any objects - moving the objects slightly between each shot.
Stop-Motion
Frame
Decrement Action
Max and Dave Fleischer
42. Shows where the key (most important) action occurs.
Keyframe
Tex Avery
Willis O'Brien
Cue points
43. First full lengthed animated picture and color cartoon - 1937. It was produced by Walt Disney.
Tex Avery
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Anticipation
James Cameron
44. This cursor symbol means you can click to select as click and hold to MOVE the object.
Stop-Motion
Nesting
DSL
Crossbar
45. Objects - such as drawings - that are converted to symbols and stored in the Library panel. The original object.
Parent-child relationship
Ease In and Ease out
Decrement Action
Graphic Symbols
46. In ActionScript - a sequence of characters including letters - numbers - and punctuation.
Norman Mclaren
Ray Harryhausen
String variable
Hanna -Barbera
47. ActionScript 3.0 code that 'listening' to 'hear' when an event occurs. For example - a button object might listen for a mouse click.
Publish
AddChild
Background
Event Listener
48. Colonel Heeza Liar - Krazy Kat - and Bobby Bumps
Norman Mclaren
Bray Studios
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Publish
49. An animation stored as a single - reusable symbol in the library panel
Ray Harryhausen
Art Clokey
Animated graphic symbol
James Cameron
50. Moveable objects used on the set of a play or a movie
Edit
Props
Data type
Methods