Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 377 · 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 spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a video game scene
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a greeting card
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a road sign (d) a comic book page
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) a little further along (c) much bigger (d) in a new colour
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a comic book page
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) flipbook pages (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a looping GIF
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a clay model moved a bit
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a computer-built model
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
38. 38.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the movement looks jumpy
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?

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