Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 202 · 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 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a poster on a wall
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
10. 10.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) in a new colour (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
11. 11.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) flipbook pages
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
14. 14.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) the paper moves
15. 15.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) only sound (c) many still pictures (d) one big painting
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
17. 17.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) font (d) pixel
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a road sign
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a framed painting
26. 26.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
35. 35.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🎞️ 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
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?

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