Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 608 · 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 of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
2. 2.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the eye blends them (c) the paper moves (d) magic ink
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
7. 7.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) many still pictures
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a comic book page (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a poster on a wall
10. 10.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) two birds (c) the bird in the cage (d) nothing at all
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
14. 14.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) frame (d) font
15. 15.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
24. 24.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a looping GIF (d) a cartoon film
27. 27.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a virtual 3D world
28. 28.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (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 each second?
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a spinning zoetrope
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a rigged digital model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) frames drawn on a tablet
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a spinning zoetrope
34. 34.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
38. 38.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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