Animation

Animation – a series of hand-drawn of computer-generated images that, when viewed as

a sequence, give the impression of movement.

Video – A recording of moving images.

Storyboard – a planning tool using a series of drawings to show what will happen.

Frame – One whole image in an animation or video.

Annotate – Writing on a drawing to explain what it shows, or what will happen.

Zoom – Zooming in gets you closer to an image and enlarges it. Zooming out moves you

away from the image and makes it smaller.

Timeline – the sequence of frames that are created in an animation and that run in order.

Stage – the area where you draw your animation.

Drawing tools – It lets you draw items, change colours, erase elements of an image, and

so on.

Frames per second (fps) – the number of frames that will appear in each second of the

animation.

Bitmap – an image stored as individual squares (pixels) that each have one colour.

Pixel – a single square of one colour in a bitmap image.

Pixelating – When a bitmap image is enlarged, each pixel gets larger, and the image goes

blurry.

Vector – An image stored as coordinates and calculations.

Narration – the audio commentary that can be heard while images are shown.

Soundtrack – music that can be heard while images are shown.