keyframe
verbEtymology From key + frame.
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To animate by interpolation between successive keyframes.
keyframe
nounUS /ˈkiˌfɹeɪm/
Etymology From key + frame.
1
A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- Lightning is a very quick and simple animation technique that can easily be overanimated. Don't try and animate the lightning bolt into the frame by building it up over a sequence of keyframes.2013, Chris Georgenes, How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS6: The Art of Design and Animation:
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Computer graphics, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A complete video frame, used as a reference for subsequent interframes in video compression.
- Synonyms
- reference frame, intraframe
- Derived terms
- keyframer
- Related terms
- interframe, I-frame, B-frame, P-frame