Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 495 · 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) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the movement looks jumpy
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
6. 6.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
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 is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
16. 16.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
23. 23.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a greeting card
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
32. 32.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) poster (c) font (d) pixel
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a video game scene (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
35. 35.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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