Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 241 · 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 stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a cartoon film
2. 2.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
5. 5.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) one big painting
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
13. 13.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎞️ 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
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
19. 19.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ 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
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a poster on a wall
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a comic book page (d) a cartoon film
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
35. 35.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) font (d) pixel
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
40. 40.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope

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