Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 369 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a stop-motion film
4. 4.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a computer-built model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
6. 6.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
7. 7.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) flipbook pages
9. 9.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
13. 13.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a framed painting (d) a poster on a wall
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a stop-motion film
17. 17.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a cartoon film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
24. 24.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
26. 26.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
32. 32.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
35. 35.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a video game scene (c) a looping GIF (d) a stop-motion film
37. 37.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) the rule of thirds (c) squash and stretch (d) colour mixing
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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