Image
An image made of pixels
What is a bitmap?
The most well known lossy audio format.
What is MP3?
The most well known lossy video format.
What is MP4.
The process of creating new frames in between keyframes.
What is tweening?
A typeface or font family with a small stroke attached to the ends of the larger main strokes.
What is a serif font?
A way of making images smaller but it loses some quality in the process
What is lossy compresison?
A file format which stores the notes and instruments rather than a sound wave.
What is MIDI?
The number of video frames displayed every second.
What is frame rate or frames per second?
A type of mechanisation/automation used to input actual human movement into animation software.
What is motion capture?
The thickness of a font which is often denoted as being hairline, light, normal, or heavy among others.
What is font weight?
The possible number of colours each pixel in an image could be
What is bit depth / colour depth?
A component or device which converts a digital audio signal into an analog signal.
What is a DAC?
A type of storyboard which has parent and dependent scenes.
What is a hierarchical story board?
A type of animation used to easily animate groups/crowds/flocks of characters.
What is behavioural animation?
An automation process which splits a document into separate pages.
What is pagination?
An way of encoding an image such that a person sees a degraded copy while it fully loads
What is an interlaced image?
A stepped digital wave, unless a continuous analog wave.
What is a discrete wave?
Software which encodes and decodes specific video formats.
What is a codec?
A way of moving through an animated scene by walking/flying without constraint.
What is navigable navigation?
A way of defining a specific look for paragraphs/characters which will change all text in a document flagged as having this look.
What are styles?
A setting which allows a camera sensor to be more sensitive to light but can make the image grainier.
What is ISO?
The most commonly used sampling rate for digital audio.
What is 44.1KHz?
A process used to make different scenes look consistent and fix any colour imbalances.
What is colour correction?
The process of drawing over video to create a mask, enhance the video, or to trace an animated character using live action as a reference.
What is rotoscoping?
A way of pushing text to both the left and right hand sides of a given area which can result in 'rivers'.
What is justification?