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Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 687 · 40 questions
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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.

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

Answer key

  1. 3D computer animation
  2. 1
  3. many still pictures
  4. 2D drawn animation
  5. 60
  6. 40
  7. stop-motion
  8. a looping GIF
  9. 18
  10. stop-motion
  11. a comic book page
  12. a flipbook
  13. True
  14. True
  15. the bird in the cage
  16. 44
  17. frame
  18. a rigged digital model
  19. a printed photo
  20. True
  21. a hand-drawn cartoon
  22. True
  23. a zoetrope
  24. False
  25. a framed painting
  26. False
  27. 160
  28. True
  29. paper cut-outs shot
  30. False
  31. False
  32. a clay model moved a bit
  33. 3D computer animation
  34. True
  35. 2D drawn animation
  36. 162
  37. a spinning zoetrope
  38. True
  39. a poster on a wall
  40. pencil drawings on paper

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