Chapter Five - Making It Work

2½-D animation

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2½-D animation

Adds an illusion of depth (the z axis) to an image through shadowing and highlighting, but the image itself still rests on the flat x and y axes in two dimensions.

Animation occurring on the flat Cartesian x and y axes.

Animation occurring in three axes, x, y, and z

A collection of still images in a single file played back in a timed sequence to provide animation.

Collection of images rapidly displayed to provide visual change over time.

Clear celluloid sheet used for drawing each frame in an animation

A method of overlaying layers of images and sequencing them into an animation.

Rapidly altering the colors of an image according to a formula.

An animation software tool that allows the user to change an animation's attribute such as the elasticity of an object, the amount of gravity, and the length of the fall of an object druing a tween.

In computer animation terminology, special methods for computer color values, providing edge detection, and layering so that images can blend or otherwise mix their colors to produce special transparencies, inversions, and effects.