Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 341 · 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 with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
3. 3.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a digital 3D character
4. 4.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a digital 3D character
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
6. 6.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) toys shot step by step
11. 11.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
15. 15.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
18. 18.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) frame (d) poster
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a poster on a wall (c) a comic book page (d) a greeting card
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
24. 24.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a rigged digital model
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a digital 3D character (d) a rigged digital model
27. 27.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
28. 28.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a road sign
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a cartoon film (d) a comic book page

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