Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 130 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
4. 4.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a digital 3D character
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the colours fade (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it gets louder
8. 8.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) frame (c) poster (d) pixel
9. 9.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a rigged digital model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
10. 10.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
13. 13.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a looping GIF (c) a comic book page (d) a flipbook
16. 16.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a spinning zoetrope
18. 18.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a digital 3D character (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
21. 21.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
22. 22.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) the bird in the cage (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
39. 39.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion

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