Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 322 · 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 zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) magic ink (c) the eye blends them (d) the paper moves
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a comic book page (d) a framed painting
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
18. 18.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
25. 25.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
26. 26.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a comic book page (c) a cartoon film (d) a video game scene
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a comic book page (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
33. 33.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
35. 35.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
37. 37.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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