Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 141 · 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.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
6. 6.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
18. 18.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
19. 19.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) a computer-built model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a virtual 3D world (d) toys shot step by step
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
24. 24.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a computer-built model (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a road sign
30. 30.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
32. 32.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🎞️ 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
37. 37.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) many still pictures
39. 39.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a computer-built model (d) paper cut-outs shot
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall

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