Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 131 · 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.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
2. 2.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a printed photo (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a stop-motion film
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
12. 12.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a poster on a wall (d) a looping GIF
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
19. 19.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a road sign
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
32. 32.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) it gets louder (d) the colours fade
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a comic book page
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a microphone (c) a storyboard (d) a flipbook
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion

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