Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 783 · 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.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) poster (b) font (c) pixel (d) frame
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a printed photo (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a video game scene (d) a stop-motion film
4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
5. 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a printed photo (c) a cartoon film (d) a flipbook
6. 6.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
7. 7.True or false: a printed photo shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
10. 10.🎞️ 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
11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
12. 12.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 9 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
13. 13.🎞️ Why do still pictures shown fast seem to move? (a) magic ink (b) the pictures are wet (c) the paper moves (d) the eye blends them
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
15. 15.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a greeting card (d) a looping GIF
16. 16.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
17. 17.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) a virtual 3D world
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
19. 19.🎞️ 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
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
21. 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a cartoon film (c) a framed painting (d) a printed photo
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a rigged digital model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) a computer-built model (d) a clay model moved a bit
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
25. 25.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
28. 28.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
29. 29.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
30. 30.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 13 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 8 seconds?
35. 35.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
36. 36.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
37. 37.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
38. 38.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) a little further along (b) in the same place (c) in a new colour (d) much bigger
39. 39.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a computer-built model (c) a hand-drawn cartoon (d) a virtual 3D world

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