Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 262 · 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 looping GIF (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a spinning zoetrope
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a computer-built model
7. 7.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) frame (d) poster
8. 8.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) only sound
10. 10.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a printed photo (d) a spinning zoetrope
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
19. 19.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
22. 22.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot
25. 25.🎞️ 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
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a video game scene
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
30. 30.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
38. 38.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet

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