Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 266 · 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 comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a flipbook
2. 2.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
3. 3.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a digital 3D character (d) a clay model moved a bit
4. 4.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
6. 6.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
7. 7.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the pictures are wet (d) the eye blends them
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
12. 12.🎞️ 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) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a poster on a wall (d) a looping GIF
17. 17.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a digital 3D character (c) toys shot step by step (d) paper cut-outs shot
24. 24.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
26. 26.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
29. 29.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a road sign
31. 31.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a cartoon film (d) a stop-motion film
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) toys shot step by step
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot

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