Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 564 · 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.🎞️ 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
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
3. 3.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) flipbook pages
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (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 zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a comic book page (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
9. 9.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
11. 11.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a virtual 3D world
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) paper cut-outs shot
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) a clay model moved a bit
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a looping GIF (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
19. 19.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a road sign (d) a spinning zoetrope
23. 23.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the movement looks jumpy
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a stop-motion film
25. 25.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) the bird in the cage (b) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) two birds
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a cartoon film
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) a computer-built model
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a comic book page (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a rigged digital model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
40. 40.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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