scratch adj.— «With the story reel complete, next comes the soundtrack. Disney animators use “scratch” voices rather than professional actors for preliminary dialog.» —“Welcome to Planet Pixar” by Austin...
sweatbox n.— «Pixar’s story development process as well as its internal lexicon—including sweatbox, when the director critiques individual animations, and plus-ing, heaping more and more good ideas on a structure that’s already...
plus-ing n.— «Pixar’s story development process as well as its internal lexicon—including sweatbox, when the director critiques individual animations, and plus-ing, heaping more and more good ideas on a structure that’s already...
Catmull-Rom spline n.— «Catmull invented texture mapping (the way to make digital surfaces “pour” over objects), the Z-buffer (an algorithm that tracks the virtual distance between pixels and a viewer, now standard in most...
plusing n.— «Everything after the story reel is just plus-ing, like the clever labels added to cereal boxes in Wazowski’s apartment in Monsters.» —“Welcome to Planet Pixar” by Austin Bunn Wired June, 2004...
Ediacaran adj.— «Geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth’s history—the first in 120 years. The Ediacaran Period covers some 50 million years of ancient time on our planet from 600 million years ago to about...