Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 254 · 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 framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) pencil drawings on paper
7. 7.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
8. 8.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards
9. 9.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
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.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
15. 15.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a poster on a wall
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a poster on a wall (d) a spinning zoetrope
20. 20.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
24. 24.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
25. 25.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.🎞️ 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
28. 28.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
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) nothing at all (b) the bird in the cage (c) two birds (d) an empty cage
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
32. 32.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) persistence of vision (c) colour mixing (d) squash and stretch
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) flipbook pages (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
38. 38.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) frames drawn on a tablet
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
40. 40.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) toys shot step by step

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