Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 725 · 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.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) flipbook pages (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
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 spinning zoetrope (b) a looping GIF (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🎞️ 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) the bird in the cage (c) an empty cage (d) nothing at all
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a framed painting (c) a cartoon film (d) a looping GIF
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a road sign (d) a flipbook
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
12. 12.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
15. 15.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
16. 16.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
19. 19.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the eye blends them (b) the paper moves (c) the pictures are wet (d) magic ink
20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a stop-motion film
21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
23. 23.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
25. 25.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) one big painting
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
30. 30.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a stop-motion film
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
35. 35.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) poster (d) frame
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit

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