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Glossary

Welcome to the VFX glossary. Here, you’ll find definitions for visual effects terms and quick answers to some of the most commonly asked questions.

  • 3D Animation

  • Alpha Channel

  • Ambient Occlusion

  • Background Plate

  • Bump Map

  • Cloud Tank

  • Compositing

  • Depth Channel

  • Depth of Field (DoF)

  • Environment Map

  • Frame Rate

  • Green Screen

  • HDR (High Dynamic Range)

  • Inverse Kinematics (IK)

  • Jitter

  • Keyframe

  • Lighting Pass

  • Matte Painting

  • Normal Map

  • Opacity

  • Particle Systems

  • Photogrammetry

  • Quaternions

  • Ray Tracing

  • Rotoscoping

  • Shader

  • Texture Mapping

  • UV Mapping

  • Volumetrics

  • Wireframe

  • X-Sheet

  • Y-Axis

  • Z-Depth

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