Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 590 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.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
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) paper cut-outs shot
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a cartoon film
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a road sign (c) a stop-motion film (d) a spinning zoetrope
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
19. 19.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a greeting card (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
23. 23.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) only sound
24. 24.🎞️ 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
25. 25.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a zoetrope (c) a microphone (d) a flipbook
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a virtual 3D world (d) toys shot step by step
31. 31.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) it gets louder (c) the colours fade (d) the movement looks jumpy
32. 32.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) poster (d) pixel
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a comic book page (d) a looping GIF
34. 34.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) paper cut-outs shot
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a cartoon film (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True

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