Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 521 · 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) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) it plays backwards (d) the colours fade
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
5. 5.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a virtual 3D world
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a looping GIF
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a video game scene
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
11. 11.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a road sign
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a computer-built model
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a printed photo (d) a comic book page
24. 24.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) magic ink (c) the pictures are wet (d) the eye blends them
25. 25.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
27. 27.🎞️ 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
28. 28.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) pixel (d) frame
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a comic book page
33. 33.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a spinning zoetrope
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
39. 39.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a storyboard
40. 40.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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