✏️CW Animation Vocabulary

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

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

• Scrubbing

• Scratching

• Framing

• Stop Motion

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

• Pixels

• Symbols

• Vectors

• Frames

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 beginning or ending of a sequence of frames

• Mainframe

• Keyframe

• Storyboard frame

• Onion skin

FPS stand for

• Features per situation

• Frames per sequence

• Frames per storyboard

• Frames per second

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.

The process of creating illusion of motion by creating individual frames

• Animation

• Camera

• CGI

  Computer Generated Imagery

• Claymation

Use of computer graphics to create special effects

• Animation

• Camera

• CGI

  Computer Generated Imagery

• Claymation

The creative artist who directs the making of the film

• Director

• Editing

• Frame

• Stop Motion