Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 376 · 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 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.🎞️ 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
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a road sign (c) a poster on a wall (d) a framed painting
5. 5.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
7. 7.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
10. 10.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the pictures are wet (d) the eye blends them
14. 14.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
24. 24.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) poster (d) frame
31. 31.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a rigged digital model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page

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