ANIMATION+VOCABULARY

Research some animation terms below that will be helpful to understand. Please give your understanding of the terms.

Animation Rig -
These are used to help characters and other objects to fly through the air! They work a little like a crane, suspending the object while the shot is taken. Later on the rig is rubbed out in the animation software. In [|STOP MOTION PRO], the software making Wallace and Grommit film a "[|rig removal tool]" is used to paint the background photo over the rig.

Explosions, flying objects, using the FORCE and many other special effect can be made possible with rigs.

The link below are a bunch of useful terms related to animation -

http://minyos.its.rmit.edu.au/aim/a_notes/anim_principles.html