Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 343 · 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.🎞️ 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
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a computer-built model (d) flipbook pages
3. 3.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) many still pictures
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit
9. 9.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) pixel (d) frame
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) puppets moved bit by bit
12. 12.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) toys shot step by step
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
23. 23.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) toys shot step by step
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) toys shot step by step (d) puppets moved bit by bit
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
33. 33.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
40. 40.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) much bigger

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