Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 327 · 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.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
2. 2.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) it plays backwards (d) the colours fade
5. 5.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
14. 14.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
15. 15.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) puppets moved bit by bit
16. 16.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) frame (d) font
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
19. 19.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
23. 23.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
24. 24.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a computer-built model (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
30. 30.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a poster on a wall (d) a video game scene
33. 33.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
36. 36.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
39. 39.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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