Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 248 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
2. 2.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a rigged digital model
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
6. 6.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
7. 7.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a poster on a wall
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
11. 11.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) pixel (c) poster (d) font
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
17. 17.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
24. 24.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a computer-built model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
25. 25.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) pencil drawings on paper
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) toys shot step by step (d) a computer-built model
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a printed photo (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a comic book page (d) a flipbook
32. 32.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
33. 33.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎞️ 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
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
40. 40.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a computer-built model

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