Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 165 · 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 flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a printed photo (d) a greeting card
3. 3.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.🎞️ 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
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
13. 13.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the colours fade
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) a digital 3D character
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) flipbook pages (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a road sign
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a rigged digital model
22. 22.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the paper moves
23. 23.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) a little further along (c) much bigger (d) in the same place
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a cartoon film
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a computer-built model
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) toys shot step by step
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
32. 32.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) pixel (d) font
33. 33.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
39. 39.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?

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