Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 381 · 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 pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
4. 4.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
10. 10.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
13. 13.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
16. 16.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a virtual 3D world
19. 19.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a video game scene
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
26. 26.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a road sign
35. 35.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a greeting card (c) a cartoon film (d) a printed photo
37. 37.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
40. 40.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a storyboard

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