Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 323 · 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 kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) frame (d) font
3. 3.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) an empty cage
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a greeting card (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a looping GIF
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
14. 14.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world
17. 17.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) much bigger
18. 18.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ 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
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a printed photo (d) a cartoon film
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) only sound
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a computer-built model (d) flipbook pages
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
39. 39.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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