Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 236 · 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.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a greeting card
4. 4.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
6. 6.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) one big painting
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
9. 9.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
13. 13.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
15. 15.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
17. 17.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a poster on a wall (d) a looping GIF
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
22. 22.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
23. 23.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
28. 28.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a computer-built model (d) a rigged digital model
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (c) two birds (d) an empty cage
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
40. 40.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) frame (d) pixel

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