Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 471 · 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 zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
7. 7.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
8. 8.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a computer-built model (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
9. 9.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a rigged digital model
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a looping GIF (d) a poster on a wall
17. 17.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
19. 19.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) flipbook pages
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot
28. 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) frames drawn on a tablet
31. 31.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) pixel (d) font
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
39. 39.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
40. 40.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a digital 3D character

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