Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 793 · 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.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) in a new colour (b) much bigger (c) in the same place (d) a little further along
2. 2.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a video game scene (c) a comic book page (d) a cartoon film
3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a framed painting (c) a road sign (d) a video game scene
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
6. 6.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the movement looks jumpy (b) the colours fade (c) it gets louder (d) it plays backwards
7. 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a greeting card
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a poster on a wall (c) a road sign (d) a looping GIF
9. 9.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a virtual 3D world (d) a digital 3D character
10. 10.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
11. 11.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) a single photo (c) many still pictures (d) only sound
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a greeting card (d) a flipbook
13. 13.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
14. 14.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 30 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
15. 15.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
16. 16.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a virtual 3D world (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
17. 17.True or false: a comic book page shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
18. 18.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
19. 19.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
20. 20.True or false: a looping GIF shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
21. 21.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 3 seconds?
23. 23.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) a virtual 3D world (d) puppets moved bit by bit
24. 24.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
25. 25.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 11 pictures round its drum shows 22 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
28. 28.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
29. 29.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) a clay model moved a bit
30. 30.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope has 15 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
32. 32.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
33. 33.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) a virtual 3D world
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 4 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
35. 35.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a flipbook (c) a poster on a wall (d) a video game scene
37. 37.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) nothing at all (d) the bird in the cage
38. 38.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
39. 39.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a framed painting (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a comic book page (d) a greeting card

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