Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 215 · 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 with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the eye blends them
3. 3.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) the rule of thirds
4. 4.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a greeting card (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) flipbook pages
9. 9.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) toys shot step by step (d) puppets moved bit by bit
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a framed painting
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) flipbook pages
14. 14.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) poster (d) pixel
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
22. 22.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a clay model moved a bit
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
25. 25.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a storyboard (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a digital 3D character (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) flipbook pages
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
35. 35.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a comic book page

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