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Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 246 · 40 questions
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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.

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  1. 1.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
  3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
  5. 5.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) frames drawn on a tablet
  7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 60 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
  9. 9.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
  10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
  11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  12. 12.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
  16. 16.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
  17. 17.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) flipbook pages (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
  19. 19.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  22. 22.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
  23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
  24. 24.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a computer-built model (c) toys shot step by step (d) paper cut-outs shot
  27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  28. 28.🎞️ 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
  29. 29.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a comic book page (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
  31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  32. 32.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
  34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
  35. 35.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) pixel (d) font
  36. 36.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
  37. 37.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a printed photo (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook

Answer key

  1. puppets moved bit by bit
  2. a comic book page
  3. 20
  4. 2D drawn animation
  5. False
  6. a computer-built model
  7. 4
  8. a spinning zoetrope
  9. the eye blends them
  10. 2D drawn animation
  11. 60
  12. True
  13. True
  14. True
  15. many still pictures
  16. a zoetrope
  17. False
  18. a digital 3D character
  19. True
  20. True
  21. 8
  22. a rigged digital model
  23. a poster on a wall
  24. False
  25. True
  26. a hand-drawn cartoon
  27. 32
  28. persistence of vision
  29. the bird in the cage
  30. a stop-motion film
  31. 16
  32. False
  33. a virtual 3D world
  34. 32
  35. frame
  36. frames drawn on a tablet
  37. True
  38. 42
  39. a flipbook
  40. a greeting card

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