Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 374 · 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.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) frame (d) poster
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a printed photo
3. 3.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a printed photo
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
12. 12.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a greeting card (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a stop-motion film
15. 15.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (d) two birds
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
17. 17.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a road sign (d) a spinning zoetrope
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
25. 25.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) a virtual 3D world
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) a rigged digital model
28. 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
29. 29.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a stop-motion film
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
32. 32.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
33. 33.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) toys shot step by step (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
34. 34.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
36. 36.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a rigged digital model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
39. 39.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages

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