Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 697 · 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 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
3. 3.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🎞️ 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
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a comic book page (c) a looping GIF (d) a road sign
10. 10.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) toys shot step by step (d) frames drawn on a tablet
11. 11.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
12. 12.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) frames drawn on a tablet
13. 13.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a printed photo (d) a framed painting
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
15. 15.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) a computer-built model (d) flipbook pages
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a road sign
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
19. 19.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the pictures are wet (b) the paper moves (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
22. 22.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a computer-built model (c) a rigged digital model (d) a digital 3D character
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a poster on a wall (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
30. 30.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a flipbook
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 kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a rigged digital model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
37. 37.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 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 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
40. 40.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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