Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 21 · 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 a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
2. 2.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
3. 3.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
7. 7.🎞️ 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
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a video game scene
9. 9.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
10. 10.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character
12. 12.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
13. 13.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) flipbook pages (d) pencil drawings on paper
15. 15.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) flipbook pages (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a stop-motion film
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a road sign (c) a video game scene (d) a greeting card
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) flipbook pages (c) a computer-built model (d) toys shot step by step
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a printed photo
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
32. 32.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
34. 34.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) frame (c) pixel (d) poster
35. 35.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a cartoon film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a comic book page
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
39. 39.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a storyboard

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