Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 225 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
5. 5.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
6. 6.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) a digital 3D character
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a comic book page
8. 8.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
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) an empty cage (b) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
29. 29.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) a clay model moved a bit
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) flipbook pages
33. 33.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
35. 35.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) toys shot step by step
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a rigged digital model
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
38. 38.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
40. 40.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy

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