Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 650 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
3. 3.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
8. 8.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a digital 3D character (d) toys shot step by step
10. 10.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) one big painting
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
14. 14.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
17. 17.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
22. 22.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) frame (c) font (d) poster
23. 23.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
25. 25.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
27. 27.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🎞️ 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
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a printed photo (d) a road sign
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a computer-built model
37. 37.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
38. 38.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit

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