Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 117 · 40 questions

Creator's tip (Many pictures, fast): Animation = many still pictures (frames), each a little different, shown quickly. Persistence of vision: the eye holds each picture for a moment, so fast pictures blend into movement. Pictures each second = pictures on a zoetrope drum × spins each second.

1. 1.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) magic ink (c) the eye blends them (d) the paper moves
3. 3.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
7. 7.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
8. 8.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) flipbook pages
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
23. 23.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) toys shot step by step
28. 28.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
29. 29.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a looping GIF
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
34. 34.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?

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