Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 77 · 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.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 36 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
2. 2.🎞️ 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
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a road sign (c) a stop-motion film (d) a greeting card
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a greeting card (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook
6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a framed painting
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a poster on a wall (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
10. 10.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) colour mixing (d) persistence of vision
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a poster on a wall (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
12. 12.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a microphone (b) a flipbook (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
13. 13.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a digital 3D character (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
17. 17.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
19. 19.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 44 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.True or false: a video game scene shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
22. 22.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) much bigger
23. 23.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 56 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a computer-built model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) puppets moved bit by bit
26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a cartoon film
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) toys shot step by step (c) a rigged digital model (d) a clay model moved a bit
29. 29.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a cartoon film (c) a comic book page (d) a stop-motion film
30. 30.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a video game scene (c) a comic book page (d) a road sign
31. 31.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a rigged digital model (d) pencil drawings on paper
32. 32.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
33. 33.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) puppets moved bit by bit
34. 34.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.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
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a video game scene (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
37. 37.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a virtual 3D world (b) toys shot step by step (c) flipbook pages (d) a clay model moved a bit
38. 38.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) pixel (c) font (d) poster
39. 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a printed photo (c) a poster on a wall (d) a flipbook
40. 40.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation

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