Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 737 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
2. 2.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) the pictures are wet (c) magic ink (d) the eye blends them
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a looping GIF
4. 4.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) squash and stretch (d) the rule of thirds
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
6. 6.🎞️ 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
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
9. 9.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
12. 12.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
13. 13.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a rigged digital model (d) flipbook pages
14. 14.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 24 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
20. 20.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in the same place (b) much bigger (c) a little further along (d) in a new colour
21. 21.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) paper cut-outs shot
22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) pencil drawings on paper
23. 23.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
25. 25.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a road sign (c) a comic book page (d) a framed painting
26. 26.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) puppets moved bit by bit
28. 28.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a looping GIF (c) a flipbook (d) a spinning zoetrope
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a poster on a wall
32. 32.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a flipbook
35. 35.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
36. 36.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
37. 37.🎞️ 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
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a video game scene
39. 39.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?

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