Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 273 · 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 spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a cartoon film (c) a looping GIF (d) a stop-motion film
3. 3.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
6. 6.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 15 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
13. 13.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
15. 15.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
24. 24.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) a digital 3D character
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in a new colour (c) in the same place (d) much bigger
30. 30.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a comic book page
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a comic book page (c) a framed painting (d) a video game scene
34. 34.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion

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