Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 675 · 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 kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
2. 2.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a road sign
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a digital 3D character
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) pixel (c) font (d) frame
8. 8.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a poster on a wall (d) a printed photo
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
13. 13.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) persistence of vision (b) colour mixing (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the pictures are wet
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a video game scene (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
29. 29.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) only sound
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a greeting card (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
32. 32.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
34. 34.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
37. 37.🎞️ 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) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a greeting card (c) a stop-motion film (d) a video game scene
40. 40.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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