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Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 713 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a video game scene (d) a greeting card
  2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
  3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
  4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  5. 5.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) the movement looks jumpy
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a video game scene
  7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  8. 8.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
  10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
  12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
  15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
  16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a road sign (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
  18. 18.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
  19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
  20. 20.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
  22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
  23. 23.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) two birds (b) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
  25. 25.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a looping GIF (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
  27. 27.🎞️ 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
  28. 28.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) one big painting
  29. 29.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) frame (d) poster
  30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a greeting card (c) a road sign (d) a stop-motion film
  31. 31.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
  34. 34.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
  36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  37. 37.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a digital 3D character (d) paper cut-outs shot
  40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

Answer key

  1. a greeting card
  2. a poster on a wall
  3. 192
  4. 11
  5. the movement looks jumpy
  6. a road sign
  7. 48
  8. False
  9. a computer-built model
  10. 9
  11. 80
  12. 2
  13. 15
  14. a digital 3D character
  15. a flipbook
  16. 30
  17. a cartoon film
  18. 3D computer animation
  19. 2D drawn animation
  20. False
  21. stop-motion
  22. flipbook pages
  23. False
  24. the bird in the cage
  25. a zoetrope
  26. a framed painting
  27. the eye blends them
  28. many still pictures
  29. frame
  30. a stop-motion film
  31. True
  32. True
  33. 3D computer animation
  34. True
  35. 80
  36. 10
  37. True
  38. False
  39. paper cut-outs shot
  40. 2

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