Color Themes
Color Meaning
Color Terms
Color Wheel
Character Animation
100
a color theme that includes a single color combined with shades and tints of that color, can be considered boring
What is monochromatic color theme?
100
cool color that suggests royalty or creativity
What is violet/purple?
100
visual technique of gradually transitioning from one color to another
What is gradient?
100
Either of the TWO colors that are analogous to blue.
What are green and violet(purple)?
100
the number of frames that are played back per second
What is frame rate?
200
a color theme that includes two colors that sit directly across from each other on the color wheel
What is a complementary color theme?
200
cool color that is associated with peacefulness or sadness
What is blue?
200
A color mixed with white
What is tint?
200
ALL THREE primary (additive) colors for computer or TV monitors.
What are red, green, blue?
200
The process of synchronizing a character's mouth to sounds in the dialogue soundtrack.
What is lip sync?
300
A color theme that includes colors that sit next to one another on the color wheel.
What is analogous color theme?
300
warm stimulating color, suggests anger, excitement or danger
What is red?
300
A color mixed with black
What is a shade?
300
the resulting color from mixing two primary colors (in RGB: yellow, cyan, magenta. Traditional: green, orange, violet)
What is a secondary color?
300
A movie with sound that is developed from the storyboard that is used to determine the rhythm of a project and provides a good overview of the project before beginning production.
What is an animatic?
400
Color theme that adds contrast and excitent to a design
What is complementary color theme?
400
warm color that can create happiness and harmony or anxiety, depending on the brightness
What is yellow?
400
The intensity of a color
What is saturation?
400
traditional complimentary color to yellow
What is violet/purple?
400
The process in which the body parts of the animated character are attached to one another, creating a hierarchy and allowing the animator to manipulate them.
What is rigging?
500
color theme that includes three evenly separated hues on a color wheel as well as different shades, tints and tones of those colors. Purple-Orange-Green
What is a triadic color theme?
500
warm color that increases mental sharpness
What is orange?
500
ALL three attributes (qualities) of color.
What are hue, saturation, and brightness?
500
refers to the purity of a color. A color with high amount of this has no black, white, or gray added to it.
What is chroma?
500
A feature that shows the previous, current, and next drawings of a sequence simultaneously
What is onion skin?