Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 68 · 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.🎞️ 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
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a looping GIF (d) a greeting card
4. 4.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) flipbook pages (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a digital 3D character
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a looping GIF
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
7. 7.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a poster on a wall
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a printed photo (d) a poster on a wall
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a greeting card (d) a cartoon film
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
17. 17.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
19. 19.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) it plays backwards (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) the colours fade
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
23. 23.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a cartoon film
25. 25.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) flipbook pages (d) toys shot step by step
26. 26.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a digital 3D character
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) frames drawn on a tablet
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a framed painting (d) a spinning zoetrope
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
33. 33.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) nothing at all (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
35. 35.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) poster (c) pixel (d) font
36. 36.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a comic book page (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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