Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 278 · 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 printed photo (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
2. 2.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a computer-built model (c) a digital 3D character (d) a rigged digital model
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) poster (d) pixel
11. 11.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a greeting card
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) the paper moves
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
32. 32.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) nothing at all
33. 33.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a rigged digital model
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a stop-motion film
37. 37.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
38. 38.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting

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