Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 300 · 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 comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
3. 3.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) in a new colour
4. 4.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the colours fade (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it gets louder
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit
6. 6.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
14. 14.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
17. 17.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a greeting card
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a printed photo
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
23. 23.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) frame (d) poster
24. 24.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
25. 25.🎞️ 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
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
28. 28.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) flipbook pages (d) toys shot step by step
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) a single photo
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
36. 36.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
38. 38.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) two birds (c) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a looping GIF (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo

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