Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 619 · 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.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
2. 2.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
3. 3.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
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.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a video game scene
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 39 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
9. 9.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
11. 11.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a microphone (c) a storyboard (d) a flipbook
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
13. 13.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
18. 18.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a digital 3D character (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a spinning zoetrope
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
25. 25.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a computer-built model (d) a clay model moved a bit
26. 26.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) pixel (d) poster
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
28. 28.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
30. 30.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
35. 35.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
38. 38.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
40. 40.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True

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