Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 371 · 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) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a virtual 3D world
3. 3.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) a little further along (c) in the same place (d) much bigger
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a greeting card (d) a printed photo
10. 10.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
11. 11.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a video game scene (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a poster on a wall (d) a spinning zoetrope
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) flipbook pages
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) a digital 3D character
26. 26.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) font (d) poster
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a computer-built model (c) toys shot step by step (d) paper cut-outs shot
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a looping GIF (c) a printed photo (d) a comic book page
31. 31.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) the colours fade (d) it gets louder
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a printed photo
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
35. 35.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) flipbook pages
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a stop-motion film
38. 38.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a cartoon film (d) a looping GIF

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