Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 593 · 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.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
4. 4.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) the bird in the cage (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
6. 6.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
7. 7.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) flipbook pages (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
8. 8.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
11. 11.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a poster on a wall
14. 14.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a rigged digital model
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a comic book page (d) a video game scene
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a flipbook (d) a stop-motion film
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a road sign
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
30. 30.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) the pictures are wet
31. 31.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
35. 35.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) pencil drawings on paper
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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