Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 82 · 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 comic book page (b) a road sign (c) a looping GIF (d) a greeting card
2. 2.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) toys shot step by step (c) a digital 3D character (d) a computer-built model
3. 3.True or false: a greeting card shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
4. 4.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a poster on a wall (c) a greeting card (d) a printed photo
5. 5.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) a digital 3D character (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
6. 6.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
7. 7.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
8. 8.True or false: a printed photo shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
9. 9.True or false: a road sign shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
10. 10.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
11. 11.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
12. 12.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
13. 13.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
14. 14.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) a computer-built model (b) a virtual 3D world (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a hand-drawn cartoon
15. 15.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a computer-built model? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
16. 16.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a clay model moved a bit (b) frames drawn on a tablet (c) a computer-built model (d) flipbook pages
17. 17.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) one big painting (b) many still pictures (c) a single photo (d) only sound
18. 18.True or false: a stop-motion film shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
19. 19.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a rigged digital model (c) toys shot step by step (d) flipbook pages
20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) pencil drawings on paper (b) puppets moved bit by bit (c) a clay model moved a bit (d) a computer-built model
21. 21.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) pixel (b) font (c) frame (d) poster
22. 22.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 3 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 9 seconds?
23. 23.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a framed painting
24. 24.🌀 A zoetrope has 13 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see in 7 seconds?
25. 25.🎞️ To show a ball rolling, each new picture shows the ball … (a) much bigger (b) in the same place (c) a little further along (d) in a new colour
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 kind of animation uses a virtual 3D world? (a) 3D computer animation (b) stop-motion (c) 2D drawn animation
28. 28.🎞️ What happens if the pictures are shown too slowly? (a) the colours fade (b) the movement looks jumpy (c) it plays backwards (d) it gets louder
29. 29.🌀 A zoetrope with 8 pictures round its drum shows 32 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
30. 30.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
31. 31.🌀 A zoetrope with 10 pictures round its drum shows 10 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a road sign (c) a video game scene (d) a looping GIF
33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses puppets moved bit by bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
34. 34.🎞️ 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
35. 35.🎞️ The idea that the eye holds a picture for a split second is called … (a) squash and stretch (b) the rule of thirds (c) persistence of vision (d) colour mixing
36. 36.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
37. 37.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) a computer-built model (c) paper cut-outs shot (d) flipbook pages
38. 38.🌀 A zoetrope has 10 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 10 seconds?
39. 39.True or false: a poster on a wall shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
40. 40.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) puppets moved bit by bit (b) toys shot step by step (c) frames drawn on a tablet (d) a clay model moved a bit

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