Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 204 · 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 flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a poster on a wall (d) a cartoon film
6. 6.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
7. 7.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a framed painting
12. 12.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a road sign
15. 15.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
18. 18.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a flipbook
19. 19.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the eye blends them (d) the pictures are wet
20. 20.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) the colours fade (d) it gets louder
21. 21.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a comic book page
23. 23.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.🎞️ 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
26. 26.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) poster (c) pixel (d) font
27. 27.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) a rigged digital model
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
33. 33.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
38. 38.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion

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