Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 38 · 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 with 15 pictures round its drum shows 60 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
7. 7.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
13. 13.🎞️ 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
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
15. 15.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a rigged digital model (c) a computer-built model (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) toys shot step by step (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
22. 22.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) pixel (c) frame (d) poster
23. 23.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a computer-built model
28. 28.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a spinning zoetrope
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) toys shot step by step (d) a rigged digital model
37. 37.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
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.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation

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