Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 534 · 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) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a cartoon film
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it gets louder
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a looping GIF (c) a poster on a wall (d) a road sign
9. 9.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) only sound
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
11. 11.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a computer-built model
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
15. 15.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (d) two birds
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a digital 3D character (d) a clay model moved a bit
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
25. 25.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a comic book page (d) a poster on a wall
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a rigged digital model
30. 30.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a rigged digital model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
34. 34.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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