Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 199 · 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.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
2. 2.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
3. 3.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the colours fade
4. 4.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) frame (c) pixel (d) poster
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
11. 11.🎞️ 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
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
15. 15.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) toys shot step by step
16. 16.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) a virtual 3D world
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
20. 20.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the paper moves
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a greeting card
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
23. 23.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in a new colour
27. 27.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a greeting card
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
35. 35.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) colour mixing
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
38. 38.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) frames drawn on a tablet
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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