Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 496 · 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 of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a cartoon film
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a cartoon film (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
12. 12.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
14. 14.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a cartoon film
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) flipbook pages
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
21. 21.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) the bird in the cage (c) two birds (d) nothing at all
27. 27.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
29. 29.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) a little further along (c) much bigger (d) in a new colour
30. 30.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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