Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 500 · 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 computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a rigged digital model (c) a computer-built model (d) pencil drawings on paper
4. 4.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) pixel (d) font
5. 5.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
9. 9.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
20. 20.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) the paper moves
21. 21.🎞️ 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
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a computer-built model (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a road sign (c) a comic book page (d) a printed photo
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
27. 27.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
32. 32.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
33. 33.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
35. 35.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a road sign (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
38. 38.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a comic book page (d) a printed photo

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