Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 27 · 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 kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a printed photo
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a computer-built model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) frames drawn on a tablet
10. 10.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🎞️ 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
13. 13.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) only sound
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
15. 15.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
17. 17.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a spinning zoetrope
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
23. 23.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a video game scene
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) two birds
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
30. 30.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a stop-motion film
32. 32.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
34. 34.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in a new colour
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
37. 37.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
40. 40.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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