Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 161 · 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.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) a single photo
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a road sign
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a printed photo (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a video game scene (c) a poster on a wall (d) a printed photo
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) toys shot step by step (d) puppets moved bit by bit
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a virtual 3D world (d) puppets moved bit by bit
23. 23.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) nothing at all
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) flipbook pages
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
31. 31.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
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.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) pixel (d) frame
35. 35.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
38. 38.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation

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