Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 748 · 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 looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a flipbook (d) a framed painting
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
3. 3.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 15 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
4. 4.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) only sound (c) one big painting (d) a single photo
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) frames drawn on a tablet
7. 7.🎞️ 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
8. 8.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a rigged digital model (d) a clay model moved a bit
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a printed photo
10. 10.🎞️ 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) an empty cage (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 33 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a rigged digital model (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
15. 15.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) font (b) poster (c) pixel (d) frame
16. 16.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
18. 18.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
21. 21.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a clay model moved a bit
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
25. 25.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) the paper moves (b) magic ink (c) the eye blends them (d) the pictures are wet
26. 26.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a virtual 3D world (d) frames drawn on a tablet
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a rigged digital model (c) toys shot step by step (d) pencil drawings on paper
30. 30.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
33. 33.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
34. 34.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) pencil drawings on paper
35. 35.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 20 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion

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