Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 440 · 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 stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
2. 2.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) much bigger
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
4. 4.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a stop-motion film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a greeting card
6. 6.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a looping GIF
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a comic book page (c) a cartoon film (d) a greeting card
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
17. 17.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) the bird in the cage (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
24. 24.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🎞️ 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
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a cartoon film (d) a video game scene
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
31. 31.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
35. 35.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
37. 37.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) only sound
38. 38.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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