The giving of life to what has none. From breath - to animate is to breathe into a thing until it moves as if it were alive.

One who decides how a made thing is shaped and shown. The director makes none of it and answers for all of it.

Linear interpolation spoken as a word — the smooth walk between two values; animation's smallest step.

What is said before the substance, to set what follows in place. A preamble is orientation, not content.

A bounded stretch of happening, held as one view. Everything within it shares a place and a moment.