Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 54 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
2. 2.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a stop-motion film
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
6. 6.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
10. 10.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a printed photo
13. 13.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
15. 15.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) the eye blends them
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a virtual 3D world (d) puppets moved bit by bit
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
30. 30.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
36. 36.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
38. 38.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) frame (d) pixel
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True

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