Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 220 · 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 flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a comic book page
3. 3.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) pencil drawings on paper
5. 5.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
9. 9.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a zoetrope (c) a storyboard (d) a flipbook
10. 10.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in the same place
14. 14.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the paper moves
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a comic book page (d) a flipbook
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
17. 17.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting
23. 23.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) poster (d) pixel
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a digital 3D character
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
34. 34.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a clay model moved a bit
38. 38.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) puppets moved bit by bit
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) the colours fade (d) it plays backwards

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