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Animation vs Storyboard - What's the difference?

animation | storyboard |

As nouns the difference between animation and storyboard

is that animation is the act of animating, or giving life or spirit while storyboard is a series of drawings that lay out the sequence of scenes in a film, especially an animated one.

As a verb storyboard is

to create and arrange storyboard drawings.

animation

English

(wikipedia animation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
  • * 1647 , , Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members'', as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), ''The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. , Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:
  • * by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.
  • (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) The technique of making inanimate objects or drawings appear to move in motion pictures or computer graphics.
  • The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
    • He recited the story with great animation .
  • The condition of being animate or alive.
  • * Landor
    • Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation .
  • (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
  • * 1992 , Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean , page 291:
    • "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."

    Synonyms

    * (the act of breathing life into something ) vitalization, vivification, enlivenment * (the state of being lively ) airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity * (the condition of being alive ) life

    Derived terms

    (Animation) * deanimation * disanimation * reanimation * suspended animation

    Descendants

    * Japanese: ) (borrowed)

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -tion ----

    storyboard

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A series of drawings that lay out the sequence of scenes in a film, especially an animated one.
    • The storyboard process helps promote brainstorming, highlights missing tasks, and allows the team to incorporate changes prior to traveling too far down a particular path. — By Cheryl A. Malloy & William Cooley, NASA & SAIC here
  • Any sequence of drawings or diagrams which illustrate a sequence of events, e.g. in an accident or as a flowsheet for computer programming.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To create and arrange storyboard drawings.
    • Storyboarding allows students to work together as they generate ideas and eliminates the territorial defensiveness that often occurs when new ideas are suggested. — "Using Storyboarding to Determine components of Dellness for University Students" J Am Coll Health. 1996 Jan;44(4):180-3 Abstract