Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 663 · 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 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🎞️ 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
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
11. 11.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot
12. 12.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a poster on a wall (d) a spinning zoetrope
15. 15.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a greeting card (d) a comic book page
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
18. 18.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) pencil drawings on paper
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
24. 24.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it gets louder
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) one big painting (d) many still pictures
30. 30.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) frame (c) pixel (d) font
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a zoetrope (d) a storyboard
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a computer-built model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a cartoon film
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook
39. 39.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False

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