Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 540 · 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 card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a digital 3D character (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
4. 4.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a printed photo (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 42 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
8. 8.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
13. 13.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a rigged digital model (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) paper cut-outs shot
17. 17.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
18. 18.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
19. 19.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) frame (d) pixel
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
23. 23.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a flipbook
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
28. 28.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) frames drawn on a tablet
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
36. 36.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
38. 38.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) toys shot step by step (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
40. 40.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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