Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 466 · 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 comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
4. 4.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in a new colour
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
12. 12.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the paper moves
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
14. 14.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a video game scene (d) a road sign
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) pixel (d) frame
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
21. 21.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a video game scene (c) a printed photo (d) a spinning zoetrope
26. 26.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a comic book page (d) a looping GIF
28. 28.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a rigged digital model
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a digital 3D character (d) a rigged digital model
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?

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