Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 370 · 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 of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
2. 2.🎞️ 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
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a greeting card
9. 9.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
13. 13.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a comic book page (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) toys shot step by step
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a printed photo (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a stop-motion film
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
30. 30.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
31. 31.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
32. 32.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
33. 33.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
37. 37.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
38. 38.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?

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