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Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 391 · 40 questions
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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.

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

Answer key

  1. 10
  2. True
  3. False
  4. a digital 3D character
  5. stop-motion
  6. the bird in the cage
  7. a poster on a wall
  8. pencil drawings on paper
  9. 2D drawn animation
  10. a spinning zoetrope
  11. 3D computer animation
  12. persistence of vision
  13. a looping GIF
  14. 15
  15. False
  16. the movement looks jumpy
  17. 13
  18. 3D computer animation
  19. 3D computer animation
  20. True
  21. toys shot step by step
  22. 2D drawn animation
  23. stop-motion
  24. paper cut-outs shot
  25. 4
  26. False
  27. stop-motion
  28. 126
  29. True
  30. True
  31. flipbook pages
  32. False
  33. False
  34. 2D drawn animation
  35. a road sign
  36. 2
  37. False
  38. True
  39. True
  40. frame

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