Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 445 · 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.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) the bird in the cage (c) an empty cage (d) two birds
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
7. 7.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a stop-motion film
10. 10.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) toys shot step by step
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a printed photo (c) a cartoon film (d) a road sign
15. 15.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
17. 17.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
19. 19.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
20. 20.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
21. 21.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a comic book page (d) a printed photo
25. 25.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) poster (c) pixel (d) font
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a printed photo
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
33. 33.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
35. 35.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
37. 37.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a digital 3D character (c) a virtual 3D world (d) puppets moved bit by bit
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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