Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 816 · 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 has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
2. 2.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
3. 3.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a framed painting (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a comic book page
4. 4.🎞️ 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) two birds (c) the bird in the cage (d) an empty cage
5. 5.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 14 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
8. 8.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a printed photo (b) a flipbook (c) a framed painting (d) a greeting card
9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a cartoon film (c) a greeting card (d) a spinning zoetrope
10. 10.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) flipbook pages (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) a computer-built model (d) a clay model moved a bit
11. 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a flipbook (c) a cartoon film (d) a framed painting
12. 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a looping GIF (b) a road sign (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a video game scene
13. 13.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a rigged digital model (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
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 printed photo (b) a poster on a wall (c) a stop-motion film (d) a comic book page
17. 17.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a poster on a wall (b) a spinning zoetrope (c) a video game scene (d) a flipbook
18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
19. 19.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 4 seconds?
20. 20.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 5 seconds?
21. 21.True or false: a stop-motion film shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
22. 22.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a rigged digital model (d) a virtual 3D world
23. 23.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) a little further along (c) in a new colour (d) in the same place
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope with 16 pictures round its drum shows 64 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
25. 25.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) colour mixing (b) squash and stretch (c) persistence of vision (d) the rule of thirds
26. 26.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 8 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
27. 27.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a computer-built model (b) flipbook pages (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a virtual 3D world
28. 28.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) a rigged digital model (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) puppets moved bit by bit
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 9 pictures round its drum shows 18 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a hand-drawn cartoon (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) paper cut-outs shot
31. 31.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) poster (c) font (d) frame
32. 32.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
34. 34.🌀 A zoetrope with 14 pictures round its drum shows 28 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
35. 35.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a stop-motion film (b) a video game scene (c) a comic book page (d) a cartoon film
36. 36.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a flipbook (b) a microphone (c) a storyboard (d) a zoetrope
37. 37.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) only sound (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 11 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
39. 39.True or false: a cartoon film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
40. 40.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) a digital 3D character (c) toys shot step by step (d) paper cut-outs shot

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