Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 260 · 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 video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
3. 3.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
7. 7.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) frame (d) poster
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
12. 12.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
13. 13.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a digital 3D character (c) flipbook pages (d) toys shot step by step
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a road sign
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a poster on a wall (d) a comic book page
24. 24.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) in a new colour
26. 26.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a digital 3D character
28. 28.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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