Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 291 · 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 printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
3. 3.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
4. 4.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a cartoon film
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) only sound
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
12. 12.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a looping GIF
15. 15.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a road sign (c) a poster on a wall (d) a comic book page
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
19. 19.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
20. 20.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
26. 26.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
29. 29.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) frame (d) poster
30. 30.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
39. 39.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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