Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 288 · 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 framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) pencil drawings on paper
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
16. 16.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) a clay model moved a bit
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) toys shot step by step (d) a computer-built model
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
24. 24.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎞️ 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
27. 27.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
28. 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a virtual 3D world
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the eye blends them
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?

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