Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 698 · 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) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in the same place
2. 2.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a framed painting (d) a spinning zoetrope
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 45 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a virtual 3D world (d) paper cut-outs shot
6. 6.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a rigged digital model (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a flipbook (c) a greeting card (d) a printed photo
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
13. 13.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
17. 17.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
19. 19.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a video game scene (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
22. 22.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a road sign (d) a framed painting
24. 24.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
25. 25.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) an empty cage
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a road sign (c) a framed painting (d) a looping GIF
27. 27.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
28. 28.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) squash and stretch
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
31. 31.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a video game scene
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) many still pictures (d) a single photo
35. 35.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a zoetrope (c) a storyboard (d) a microphone
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a computer-built model (c) toys shot step by step (d) frames drawn on a tablet
37. 37.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a rigged digital model
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 printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a comic book page (d) a framed painting
40. 40.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy

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