Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 467 · 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) True (b) False
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
4. 4.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
8. 8.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) magic ink
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
10. 10.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
12. 12.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) toys shot step by step (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
21. 21.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) frame (d) pixel
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
26. 26.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a clay model moved a bit
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a road sign (d) a stop-motion film
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 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 rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a greeting card (d) a cartoon film

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