Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 155 · 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 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
5. 5.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) font (d) frame
7. 7.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
8. 8.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a rigged digital model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a rigged digital model
20. 20.🎞️ 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
21. 21.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
25. 25.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) in a new colour (c) much bigger (d) a little further along
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
36. 36.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page

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