Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 523 · 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 rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a cartoon film
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a stop-motion film (d) a poster on a wall
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a poster on a wall (c) a comic book page (d) a road sign
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
14. 14.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) poster (d) frame
15. 15.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🎞️ 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
19. 19.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) flipbook pages
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a stop-motion film (c) a looping GIF (d) a spinning zoetrope
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a poster on a wall (d) a spinning zoetrope
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a poster on a wall
24. 24.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in a new colour (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
25. 25.🎞️ 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
26. 26.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
28. 28.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
30. 30.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) colour mixing
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
37. 37.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
40. 40.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone

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