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