Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 367 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
2. 2.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a microphone
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a greeting card (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
8. 8.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) toys shot step by step
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a comic book page
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a greeting card (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
18. 18.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) poster (c) font (d) pixel
19. 19.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a greeting card
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
25. 25.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
26. 26.🎞️ 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
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) toys shot step by step (d) puppets moved bit by bit
28. 28.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a comic book page (d) a looping GIF
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
32. 32.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
35. 35.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) toys shot step by step (d) puppets moved bit by bit
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
39. 39.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place

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