Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 561 · 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) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
2. 2.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
5. 5.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
6. 6.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
7. 7.🎞️ 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
8. 8.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the pictures are wet (d) the eye blends them
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a road sign
11. 11.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) one big painting
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a road sign (d) a printed photo
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
15. 15.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) frame (d) pixel
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a comic book page
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
19. 19.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
20. 20.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
21. 21.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a computer-built model
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a cartoon film (c) a comic book page (d) a poster on a wall
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 15 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ 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
28. 28.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a digital 3D character (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
31. 31.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) in a new colour
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
37. 37.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
38. 38.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) toys shot step by step (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?

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