Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 515 · 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 stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a poster on a wall
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a computer-built model (d) a rigged digital model
15. 15.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
16. 16.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) the colours fade (d) it plays backwards
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a rigged digital model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
19. 19.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
22. 22.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
26. 26.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
27. 27.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) toys shot step by step
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
33. 33.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
39. 39.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame

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