Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 424 · 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.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
6. 6.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) a little further along (d) in the same place
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
8. 8.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a poster on a wall
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) frame (d) pixel
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
15. 15.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) flipbook pages (d) pencil drawings on paper
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) frames drawn on a tablet
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a computer-built model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) puppets moved bit by bit
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) puppets moved bit by bit
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) pencil drawings on paper
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a greeting card
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
33. 33.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a video game scene
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
39. 39.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
40. 40.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) flipbook pages (d) frames drawn on a tablet

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