Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 328 · 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 printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF
2. 2.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
3. 3.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) font (d) frame
4. 4.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
7. 7.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
8. 8.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) only sound
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
10. 10.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a computer-built model
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) puppets moved bit by bit
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
23. 23.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
25. 25.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
32. 32.🎞️ 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
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
36. 36.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion

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