Basic of Animation Vocabulary

breathe life into an inanimate object

• animation

• fake

• CGI

• life

still image in video

• picture

• face

• frame

• photo

physical book where each page has a different drawing to advance the animation; when the pages of the book are flipped, the still images appear to move

• photo album

• flipbook

• movie

• still life

animation method which works by taking still images with a camera and then moving the camera or subject to imply movement

• claymation

• 3D

• 2D

• stop motion

utilizes stop-motion; subjects are constructed out of clay and artists move or reconstruct the clay figures to imply movement one frame at a time

• claymation

• 2D

• 3D

• Stopmotion

logos, typography, graphics or lower thirds which are animated to create movement

• graphic design

• motion graphics

• animation

• stopmotion

filming an actor or object wearing sensors allowing software to track the movement

• animation

• 3D

• motion capture

• 2D

taking multiple different elements and putting them into a single element

• adding

• graphics

• compositing

• render