Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 259 · 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 flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) pixel (d) frame
3. 3.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a comic book page (d) a spinning zoetrope
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
17. 17.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) a virtual 3D world
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) a little further along (d) in the same place
23. 23.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) one big painting
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
36. 36.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
39. 39.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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