keyframe
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Noun edit
keyframe (plural keyframes)
- A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
- 2013, Chris Georgenes, How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS6: The Art of Design and Animation:
- 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.
- (computer graphics) A complete video frame, used as a reference for subsequent interframes in video compression.
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- (complete video frame): reference frame, intraframe
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a single frame in an animation
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complete frame used as a reference for interframes
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Verb edit
keyframe (third-person singular simple present keyframes, present participle keyframing, simple past and past participle keyframed)
- To animate by interpolation between successive keyframes.