Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 735 · 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 is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a poster on a wall (c) a greeting card (d) a framed painting
2. 2.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a greeting card
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
5. 5.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) many still pictures (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a flipbook (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a looping GIF (c) a cartoon film (d) a video game scene
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) toys shot step by step (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a cartoon film (c) a poster on a wall (d) a comic book page
15. 15.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in the same place (c) much bigger (d) in a new colour
16. 16.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
18. 18.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 15 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
23. 23.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
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.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) it plays backwards (d) the movement looks jumpy
30. 30.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) nothing at all (d) two birds
31. 31.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) puppets moved bit by bit
32. 32.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a comic book page
35. 35.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a rigged digital model
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a poster on a wall (d) a spinning zoetrope
38. 38.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a digital 3D character (d) flipbook pages

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