See all glossary termsIn computer animation, a keyframe represents a value we want to reach at a certain point in time for a given property.
In Godot, keyframes are part of an animation track, which controls the value of a given property over the length of the animation. They are represented by a little diamond icon in the Animation editor.
In this image, you can see some keyframes as part of an animation track. They animate the
When playing an animation, the computer reads keyframes before and after the current playback time and interpolates between them: the computer calculates intermediate values between the two keyframes to produce a smooth animation.
Keyframe
position property of a Sprite2D node.