Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 765 · 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 printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
3. 3.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) flipbook pages (d) a virtual 3D world
4. 4.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
5. 5.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
6. 6.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a computer-built model
7. 7.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) it gets louder (c) the colours fade (d) it plays backwards
8. 8.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a video game scene (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
12. 12.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a rigged digital model
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
14. 14.🎞️ 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
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
16. 16.🎞️ A card has a bird on one side and a cage on the other. It is spun very fast. What do you see? (a) an empty cage (b) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
21. 21.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a virtual 3D world (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 is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a video game scene (d) a framed painting
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 16 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a printed photo (c) a cartoon film (d) a spinning zoetrope
27. 27.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a printed photo (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
28. 28.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
29. 29.True or false: a road sign shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a looping GIF (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
31. 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a framed painting (c) a flipbook (d) a poster on a wall
32. 32.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
33. 33.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
34. 34.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
36. 36.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) flipbook pages
37. 37.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
38. 38.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
39. 39.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True

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