Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 475 · 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 rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
4. 4.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
10. 10.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) the rule of thirds
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
15. 15.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a poster on a wall (d) a greeting card
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
18. 18.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) only sound
19. 19.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall
23. 23.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a rigged digital model (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF
31. 31.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
33. 33.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
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) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
40. 40.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon

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