Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 357 · 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 a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
2. 2.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
9. 9.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) an empty cage
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
15. 15.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a printed photo
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a video game scene
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a video game scene (c) a flipbook (d) a greeting card
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
36. 36.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a poster on a wall
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
40. 40.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard

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