Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 206 · 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 spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a comic book page (d) a poster on a wall
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
15. 15.🎞️ 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
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a stop-motion film (d) a cartoon film
21. 21.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a spinning zoetrope
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
32. 32.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit
33. 33.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) a computer-built model (d) a virtual 3D world
34. 34.🎞️ 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
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon

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