Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 627 · 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 video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a stop-motion film
8. 8.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) flipbook pages (d) paper cut-outs shot
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) toys shot step by step
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
13. 13.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a stop-motion film
16. 16.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) the rule of thirds
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a virtual 3D world (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
19. 19.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a rigged digital model (d) a clay model moved a bit
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a poster on a wall
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
24. 24.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) frame (d) font
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
26. 26.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
27. 27.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
28. 28.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) magic ink (c) the eye blends them (d) the pictures are wet
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) two birds (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
34. 34.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a road sign
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 40 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion

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