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Animation is a filmmaking technique where the illusion of motion is created frame-by-frame. The word comes from the Latin word "anima," meaning "life" or "soul".

Here, we have gathered a list of some words associated with the exciting world of animation.

1. Storyboard - It is a visual presentation of a story; pictures are sketched and pinned on a large board that shows character, attitude, feelings, entertainment, expressions, type of action, along with the story.
   
2. Model Sheet - It is also known as a character board, character sheet, character study or simply a study for animators. It helps to standardize the appearance and shows different kinds of poses and gestures of a particular animated character.
   
3. Background - A flat piece of artwork that is the setting for a moving character in an animated film. It could be a picture of a forest, a sky, a room, or a castle.
   
4. Cel - Short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation.
   
5. Frame - It's an individual still picture. 24 frames equal to one second of a motion picture.
   
6. Squash and Stretch - A drawing technique used by to show exaggerated movements in characters. For example, if you wanted a character to jump, you would draw him close to the ground as if 'squashed' and then you would 'stretch' him out as he went into the air.
   
7. Inbetweens - Drawings that are in between the drawings that are at the beginning and end poses.
   
8. Extremes - Drawings that are at the beginning and end of a particular pose.