Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 74 · 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.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) it gets louder (b) the colours fade (c) the movement looks jumpy (d) it plays backwards
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
4. 4.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) persistence of vision (c) the rule of thirds (d) squash and stretch
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a spinning zoetrope
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a video game scene
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
15. 15.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) toys shot step by step
16. 16.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a printed photo (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 15 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
20. 20.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) puppets moved bit by bit
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a printed photo
23. 23.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) an empty cage (d) the bird in the cage
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
28. 28.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a computer-built model (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a stop-motion film (c) a printed photo (d) a flipbook
31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
32. 32.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) flipbook pages
34. 34.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a zoetrope (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a storyboard
36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a rigged digital model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a stop-motion film (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
38. 38.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) pencil drawings on paper
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a looping GIF (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
40. 40.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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