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Online 2D Animation & Cartoon Glossary of Terms and Definitions

Do you want a career in the cartooning or animation industry? Or maybe just want to understand what animator are talking about? Do you want to know about “Action Lines”, “Cel Punch”, or what a “Clean Up Artist” does? Then our online animation and cartooning resource is just what you need!

online animation and cartoon glossary of terms
Online Glossary of 2D Animation & Cartoon Terminology and Definitions

Hello, I am Malane Newman, a professional graphic designer and I put together a very comprehensive 2D Animation and Cartoon Glossary  of commonly used terminology in the graphic design industry.

Online 2D Animation & Cartoon Glossary

How to Use

The glossary is extensive while being very easy to use. To view the terms and their definitions, you can either scroll the page, or click on a letter to jump to the terms that correspond with the letter that are looking up. And possibly jump again to another term used within that definition. At the end of each section, I put “Back to Top“ links to take you back to the letter navigation.

Link to the Glossary

We hope you will enjoy and learn from this online resource. And we ask that if you like this online 2d animation and cartoon glossary you will link to it from your website so it will always be easily available to you and your visitors.

More Online Glossaries

We have other online glossaries for your convenience as well; Online Graphic Designer Glossary and our Computer & Internet Glossary. We will continue to add to both of these glossaries to create a comprehensive resource.

Malane Newman

Malane Newman is a professional illustrator and cartoonist for over 25 years. She is a master with color and eye candy. She has illustrated a variety of consumer products such as games, childrens books, board games, food and product packaging, magazines, greeting cards, and other consumer products. She provides new character design for clients and offers the copyrights at affordable rates. She can match most cartooning styles and works with creative directors on licensed character art (Barbie, Popeye, The Swan Princess).

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