Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 507 · 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 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) flipbook pages
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a printed photo
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a greeting card (c) a comic book page (d) a printed photo
5. 5.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
7. 7.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
8. 8.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a greeting card
11. 11.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a looping GIF (c) a cartoon film (d) a comic book page
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a poster on a wall (d) a road sign
18. 18.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) magic ink (c) the paper moves (d) the eye blends them
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
26. 26.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
28. 28.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
29. 29.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) frame (d) font
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a framed painting
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
35. 35.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
38. 38.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
39. 39.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (c) two birds (d) an empty cage

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