Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 670 · 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 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the eye blends them (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) toys shot step by step (c) a computer-built model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
8. 8.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
11. 11.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
13. 13.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) much bigger (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a flipbook (d) a greeting card
17. 17.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
19. 19.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a clay model moved a bit
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a poster on a wall (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
22. 22.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) frame (d) font
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
29. 29.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
30. 30.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a greeting card
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a looping GIF
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a flipbook (d) a cartoon film
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a computer-built model (d) paper cut-outs shot
38. 38.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) flipbook pages (c) a digital 3D character (d) puppets moved bit by bit

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