Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 124 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a poster on a wall (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
2. 2.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
4. 4.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) paper cut-outs shot
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) a clay model moved a bit
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
15. 15.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) toys shot step by step
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a looping GIF (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
19. 19.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
25. 25.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) flipbook pages
26. 26.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a cartoon film
31. 31.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
37. 37.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
38. 38.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) frame (d) poster

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