Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 289 · 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 eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
3. 3.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) colour mixing
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
12. 12.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
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) nothing at all (b) the bird in the cage (c) two birds (d) an empty cage
23. 23.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in the same place (c) much bigger (d) in a new colour
24. 24.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) pixel (d) poster
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a clay model moved a bit
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a greeting card
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?

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