Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 348 · 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 kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a greeting card (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
3. 3.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) flipbook pages (c) toys shot step by step (d) a rigged digital model
4. 4.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) pencil drawings on paper
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
7. 7.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) frames drawn on a tablet
8. 8.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) poster (d) frame
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
17. 17.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a looping GIF (c) a framed painting (d) a video game scene
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) toys shot step by step (d) a virtual 3D world
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
24. 24.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF
26. 26.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
29. 29.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
31. 31.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
34. 34.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) a little further along (c) much bigger (d) in the same place
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🎞️ 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
37. 37.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
38. 38.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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