Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 239 · 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 spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
3. 3.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
4. 4.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
5. 5.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all
7. 7.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) frame (d) pixel
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a looping GIF (c) a road sign (d) a stop-motion film
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a greeting card (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
16. 16.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
20. 20.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a virtual 3D world
23. 23.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) it gets louder (d) the colours fade
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.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) a computer-built model
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
36. 36.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
37. 37.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) frames drawn on a tablet
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion

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