Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 47 · 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.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
5. 5.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) font (d) poster
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a printed photo (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) one big painting
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a road sign (c) a stop-motion film (d) a poster on a wall
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
21. 21.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a storyboard
23. 23.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
27. 27.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) a clay model moved a bit
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) the movement looks jumpy
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
37. 37.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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