Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 336 · 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.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
2. 2.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) flipbook pages
3. 3.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the pictures are wet (d) the eye blends them
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
6. 6.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
10. 10.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) in a new colour (c) much bigger (d) a little further along
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
13. 13.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
15. 15.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a greeting card (c) a framed painting (d) a comic book page
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
20. 20.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a comic book page
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a road sign
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a road sign
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a rigged digital model (d) a clay model moved a bit
26. 26.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a flipbook
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.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) a digital 3D character
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
34. 34.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
35. 35.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a video game scene
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
38. 38.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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