Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 280 · 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.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) magic ink
2. 2.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) font (d) pixel
4. 4.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
5. 5.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) one big painting
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a road sign (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a looping GIF (c) a poster on a wall (d) a printed photo
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world
15. 15.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) frames drawn on a tablet
19. 19.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
24. 24.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards
27. 27.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a computer-built model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
30. 30.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a looping GIF (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a greeting card (c) a poster on a wall (d) a video game scene
33. 33.🎞️ 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
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a poster on a wall (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
38. 38.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
40. 40.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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