Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 146 · 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 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
6. 6.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a framed painting (d) a flipbook
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) one big painting
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a greeting card (c) a flipbook (d) a framed painting
13. 13.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 39 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a road sign (d) a comic book page
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a looping GIF (c) a greeting card (d) a printed photo
22. 22.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) the bird in the cage (c) nothing at all (d) two birds
23. 23.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) magic ink
24. 24.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a comic book page (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a computer-built model (d) flipbook pages
30. 30.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a stop-motion film (d) a printed photo
40. 40.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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