Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 572 · 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 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a comic book page
3. 3.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it plays backwards (c) the colours fade (d) it gets louder
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
5. 5.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
6. 6.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a virtual 3D world (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
12. 12.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) font (d) frame
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a flipbook
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a spinning zoetrope
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
22. 22.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) flipbook pages
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) nothing at all
30. 30.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) a single photo (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) many still pictures
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
32. 32.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a storyboard (c) a flipbook (d) a microphone
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a digital 3D character
36. 36.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a poster on a wall
38. 38.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) the pictures are wet (d) magic ink
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
40. 40.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) persistence of vision (c) colour mixing (d) squash and stretch

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