Here you can find all the common terms and meanings used within the Sakuga community and Japanese animation industry. Please comment if you have additional terms to be added to the glossary ✨ --- ⚡ Animator's Cut: A scene or sequence where an individual animator's style and personal flair are distinctly visible. ⚡ Animator's Signature Style: The distinctive visual traits or techniques that make an individual animator's work recognizable. ⚡ Art Director (美術監督, Bijutsu Kantoku): Responsible for the background art of the series, creating artboards that serve as references for the backgrounds. ⚡ Colour Designer (色彩設定/色彩設計, Shikisai Settei/Shikisai Sekkei): Establishes the overall colour palette for the series, coordinating with colour coordinators for individual episodes. ⚡ Effects Animation (FX) (エフェクトアニメーション): Animation of non-character elements like fire, water, explosions, and other dynamic effects. Sometimes FX also goes by SFX (Special Effects), not to be confused with Sound Effects. ⚡ Full Animation (フルアニメーション): Animation style that uses a high frame count for smoother, more detailed motion, common in high-budget films or crucial scenes. ⚡ Impact Frames: Monochromatic or stylized drawings inserted within sequences to enhance the visual impact, often flashing briefly. ⚡ In-Between Animation (動画, Douga): Frames that fill in the gaps between keyframes, making the animation smoother. ⚡ Itano Circus (板野サーカス): A dynamic and complex missile or projectile sequence, named after animator Ichirō Itano. ⚡ Key Animation (原画, Genga): Essential drawings that establish a scene's primary poses and movements. ⚡ Kagenashi (影なし): Means "without shadows," referring to animation without shadows to create a specific stylistic effect. ⚡ Layout (レイアウト): Drawings that develop simple visual ideas from storyboards into the skeleton of animation, detailing the work of both key animators and background artists. ⚡ Limited Animation (リミテッドアニメーション): A style of animation using fewer frames, common in TV anime, focuses on key poses and timing rather than fluidity.