Animation Vocabulary

What is a storyboard?

• An individual drawing.

• A sequence of rough drawings to plan an animation.

• A movie made of drawings.

• A graphic determined by lines and curves.

FPS stand for

• Features per situation

• Frames per sequence

• Frames per storyboard

• Frames per second

The beginning or ending of a sequence of frames

• Mainframe

• Keyframe

• Storyboard frame

• Onion skin

A box with a line that runs through the timeline that allows you to drag back and forth to see the action

• Vector

• Layer

• Playhead

• Frame

The timeline is where the sequence of events is created, and it is made up of

• Pixels

• Symbols

• Vectors

• Frames

Dragging the playhead back and forth to see the movement is called

• Scrubbing

• Scratching

• Framing

• Stop Motion

A graphic, button or movie clip that can be reused is called a

• Vector

• Symbol

• Frame

• Onion Skin

The scene behind the action is the

• Layer

• Background

• Playhead

• Animator

Frame-by-frame animation is when the animator

• Creates each frame individually

• Uses Tweening to create in-between frames

• Drags the playhead back and forth on the timeline

• Exaggerates drawings to show action

A graphic determined by lines and curves

• jpeg

• Raster

• Vector

• Bitmap