Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 441 · 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 happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) it gets louder
2. 2.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) two birds
7. 7.🎞️ 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
8. 8.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) flipbook pages (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
11. 11.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) colour mixing
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a computer-built model
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
18. 18.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
20. 20.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) flipbook pages
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a greeting card
28. 28.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in the same place
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 39 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a comic book page
34. 34.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
40. 40.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) pencil drawings on paper

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