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animation

Software; CAD

The process of developing the actions (poses, timing, motion) of objects. Maya offers several animation methods, including keyframe animation, path animation, nonlinear character ...

animation control

Software; CAD

In post-production video and film recording, the setup of a videotape recorder to record a single frame at a time. An animation controller is useful to guarantee real-time ...

animation layer

Software; CAD

A tool that lets you create and blend multiple levels of animation in a scene.

anti-aliasing

Software; CAD

A group of over-sampling methods for avoiding the unwanted visual effects or artifacts caused by limited display resolution. These aliasing effects include jaggies (staircasing ...

aperture

Software; CAD

In photography, the size of hole allowing light from the lens to get through to the film. The aperture works in conjunction with the shutter to determine the amount of light that ...

API

Software; CAD

Application Programming Interface. In Maya, refers to a set of C++ classes that provide internal access to Maya tools. The API is packaged as a set of OpenMaya libraries ...