Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 163 · 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 spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
4. 4.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) pencil drawings on paper
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
10. 10.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a video game scene (c) a comic book page (d) a framed painting
12. 12.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) frame (d) poster
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
17. 17.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
25. 25.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
29. 29.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) colour mixing (d) the rule of thirds
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) frames drawn on a tablet
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards

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