Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 397 · 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.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
3. 3.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a video game scene (d) a spinning zoetrope
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a road sign (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) a computer-built model (d) paper cut-outs shot
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
16. 16.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) one big painting
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
19. 19.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
24. 24.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a poster on a wall (d) a road sign
27. 27.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
29. 29.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) the colours fade (d) it plays backwards
31. 31.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a storyboard
32. 32.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) toys shot step by step
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
35. 35.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 60 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
39. 39.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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