Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 222 · 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 poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
3. 3.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
4. 4.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) much bigger (d) a little further along
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
12. 12.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
20. 20.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
25. 25.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a clay model moved a bit
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
39. 39.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character
40. 40.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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