Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 730 · 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.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a road sign (c) a stop-motion film (d) a framed painting
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
4. 4.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it plays backwards (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) the colours fade (d) it gets louder
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a road sign (c) a flipbook (d) a looping GIF
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a rigged digital model
10. 10.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) colour mixing (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a framed painting (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a video game scene (d) a printed photo
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 kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 12 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a virtual 3D world (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (d) two birds
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
24. 24.🎞️ 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
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a clay model moved a bit
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
27. 27.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
28. 28.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
31. 31.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
35. 35.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a stop-motion film
37. 37.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 11 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character

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