Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 269 · 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 cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
3. 3.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a printed photo (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
5. 5.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
8. 8.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) toys shot step by step (d) a computer-built model
9. 9.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a flipbook
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
11. 11.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) in a new colour (c) much bigger (d) a little further along
12. 12.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) a computer-built model
13. 13.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
17. 17.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) poster (d) pixel
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
23. 23.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
25. 25.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
29. 29.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a cartoon film
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a rigged digital model (c) a computer-built model (d) toys shot step by step
40. 40.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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