Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 306 · 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 cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) pencil drawings on paper
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
4. 4.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) a computer-built model (d) a digital 3D character
5. 5.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a framed painting
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🎞️ 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
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a looping GIF (c) a comic book page (d) a framed painting
23. 23.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
24. 24.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) pixel (d) frame
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
26. 26.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
32. 32.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a stop-motion film
35. 35.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
36. 36.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a storyboard (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world
38. 38.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation

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