Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 634 · 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 comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
3. 3.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a printed photo
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
7. 7.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) magic ink
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
11. 11.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a microphone (c) a storyboard (d) a flipbook
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) flipbook pages (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
17. 17.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) flipbook pages (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a computer-built model
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a road sign (d) a cartoon film
21. 21.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) squash and stretch (d) persistence of vision
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) flipbook pages (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a cartoon film
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a flipbook (c) a comic book page (d) a road sign
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a computer-built model
32. 32.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) one big painting (c) only sound (d) a single photo
33. 33.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) in a new colour (c) much bigger (d) a little further along
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a cartoon film (d) a video game scene
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
36. 36.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a comic book page (c) a looping GIF (d) a video game scene
38. 38.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) an empty cage
39. 39.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) pixel (d) frame
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a stop-motion film (d) a cartoon film

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