Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

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

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