Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 643 · 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.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) font (d) pixel
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) the paper moves
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
5. 5.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) much bigger
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (c) an empty cage (d) two birds
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a cartoon film (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
13. 13.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
14. 14.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a flipbook (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a video game scene (c) a printed photo (d) a poster on a wall
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a comic book page (c) a cartoon film (d) a stop-motion film
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a cartoon film
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
24. 24.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a digital 3D character
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
28. 28.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ 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
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.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 rigged digital model
35. 35.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 14 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
40. 40.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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