Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 425 · 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.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
2. 2.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) the rule of thirds
3. 3.🎞️ 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
4. 4.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
6. 6.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) pixel (d) font
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a framed painting (d) a looping GIF
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
18. 18.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a greeting card (d) a printed photo
22. 22.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) magic ink
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a road sign (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) a little further along (c) in the same place (d) much bigger
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
36. 36.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the colours fade
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a looping GIF
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion

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