Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 722 · 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.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the paper moves (c) the eye blends them (d) the pictures are wet
2. 2.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) flipbook pages (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a rigged digital model
3. 3.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) poster (d) frame
4. 4.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) toys shot step by step
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
6. 6.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) a little further along
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
15. 15.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a storyboard (c) a flipbook (d) a microphone
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it gets louder (c) it plays backwards (d) the colours fade
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a stop-motion film
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
23. 23.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a digital 3D character (c) a virtual 3D world (d) flipbook pages
24. 24.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
30. 30.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a stop-motion film (c) a comic book page (d) a printed photo
33. 33.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) colour mixing
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a virtual 3D world
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a poster on a wall (c) a printed photo (d) a greeting card
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a stop-motion film (d) a road sign
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) a digital 3D character (d) a clay model moved a bit
38. 38.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 39 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) nothing at all (b) an empty cage (c) two birds (d) the bird in the cage

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