Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 775 · 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 printed photo (b) a road sign (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
2. 2.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a cartoon film
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a stop-motion film (c) a road sign (d) a poster on a wall
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope with 15 pictures round its drum shows 45 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
8. 8.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a digital 3D character? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
9. 9.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
10. 10.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a stop-motion film (c) a framed painting (d) a flipbook
12. 12.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a rigged digital model
13. 13.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
14. 14.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
16. 16.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
17. 17.🎞️ 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) two birds (d) the bird in the cage
18. 18.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a storyboard (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
19. 19.True or false: a looping GIF shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
21. 21.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a cartoon film (c) a stop-motion film (d) a looping GIF
23. 23.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) only sound (d) a single photo
24. 24.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) toys shot step by step (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a virtual 3D world
25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
26. 26.True or false: a poster on a wall shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
27. 27.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
28. 28.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) colour mixing (c) the rule of thirds (d) persistence of vision
29. 29.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
30. 30.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
31. 31.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a digital 3D character (d) pencil drawings on paper
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a spinning zoetrope (b) a flipbook (c) a stop-motion film (d) a printed photo
33. 33.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a printed photo (c) a flipbook (d) a comic book page
34. 34.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
36. 36.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
38. 38.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) frames drawn on a tablet (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) paper cut-outs shot
39. 39.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
40. 40.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False

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