Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 419 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
2. 2.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a stop-motion film
4. 4.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) the rule of thirds (c) squash and stretch (d) colour mixing
5. 5.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
6. 6.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
12. 12.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) toys shot step by step
15. 15.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a virtual 3D world (d) toys shot step by step
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
23. 23.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) frame (c) poster (d) pixel
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a computer-built model
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
33. 33.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a flipbook
38. 38.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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