Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 759 · 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.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) the rule of thirds (b) squash and stretch (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
4. 4.🎞️ 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
5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
6. 6.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) many still pictures (b) a single photo (c) only sound (d) one big painting
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
10. 10.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a stop-motion film (d) a printed photo
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 6 seconds?
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) a digital 3D character (c) a rigged digital model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
13. 13.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
15. 15.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) pixel (d) frame
16. 16.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎞️ 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
18. 18.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) frames drawn on a tablet
20. 20.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the eye blends them (d) the paper moves
21. 21.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
23. 23.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) a digital 3D character
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a stop-motion film (c) a cartoon film (d) a poster on a wall
28. 28.True or false: a greeting card shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
30. 30.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
34. 34.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it plays backwards (c) it gets louder (d) the colours fade
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a printed photo (c) a flipbook (d) a spinning zoetrope
39. 39.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) paper cut-outs shot

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