Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 544 · 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 virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a computer-built model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
3. 3.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a zoetrope (d) a microphone
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a comic book page (d) a looping GIF
5. 5.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) pixel (d) frame
6. 6.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a looping GIF
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a printed photo (d) a stop-motion film
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) a computer-built model (d) toys shot step by step
18. 18.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a greeting card
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
29. 29.🎞️ 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
30. 30.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
32. 32.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation

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