Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 320 · 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.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) puppets moved bit by bit
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a looping GIF
6. 6.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
7. 7.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a cartoon film
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
13. 13.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a printed photo (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
17. 17.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
19. 19.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a computer-built model (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
22. 22.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
24. 24.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit
25. 25.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
28. 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
29. 29.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) poster (d) frame
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
35. 35.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True

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