Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 429 · 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 printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
2. 2.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) pencil drawings on paper
6. 6.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a storyboard (c) a flipbook (d) a microphone
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a stop-motion film
10. 10.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) frame (d) poster
11. 11.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🎞️ 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
15. 15.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the colours fade
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
18. 18.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the eye blends them (d) the pictures are wet
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a looping GIF (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
21. 21.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) paper cut-outs shot
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
24. 24.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
31. 31.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) a digital 3D character
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a poster on a wall
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) flipbook pages
38. 38.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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