Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 756 · 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 greeting card (b) a video game scene (c) a road sign (d) a printed photo
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) flipbook pages (d) a digital 3D character
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
4. 4.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) flipbook pages
6. 6.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) one big painting
7. 7.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a looping GIF (c) a greeting card (d) a printed photo
9. 9.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
10. 10.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a looping GIF (d) a comic book page
12. 12.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a cartoon film (c) a printed photo (d) a video game scene
16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
17. 17.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
18. 18.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a rigged digital model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) flipbook pages
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
22. 22.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) a little further along (c) much bigger (d) in the same place
23. 23.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 52 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a microphone (c) a flipbook (d) a zoetrope
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 45 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
31. 31.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a rigged digital model (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a digital 3D character
34. 34.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
36. 36.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
37. 37.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 27 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
39. 39.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True

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