Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 362 · 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 hand-drawn cartoon? (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.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a road sign
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a stop-motion film
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
13. 13.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the paper moves (c) the eye blends them (d) magic ink
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
15. 15.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
17. 17.🎞️ 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
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) pixel (d) frame
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
32. 32.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a computer-built model (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit
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.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
39. 39.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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