Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 512 · 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 digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a spinning zoetrope
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all
8. 8.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) in a new colour (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a digital 3D character
10. 10.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
11. 11.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) pencil drawings on paper
15. 15.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) pixel (c) poster (d) font
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) frames drawn on a tablet
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
21. 21.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) a virtual 3D world
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
28. 28.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a stop-motion film
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
34. 34.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
36. 36.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) colour mixing (d) the rule of thirds
37. 37.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 39 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) frames drawn on a tablet
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a cartoon film (c) a road sign (d) a comic book page

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