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Animation Worksheet: How Animation Works

Animation and design lesson 1: How animation works · Set 825 · 40 questions
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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.

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  1. 1.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a rigged digital model? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) 3D computer animation (c) stop-motion
  2. 2.🌀 A zoetrope with 12 pictures round its drum shows 48 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  3. 3.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a hand-drawn cartoon? (a) stop-motion (b) 2D drawn animation (c) 3D computer animation
  4. 4.🌀 A zoetrope with 13 pictures round its drum shows 26 pictures each second. How many times a second does it spin?
  5. 5.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) a digital 3D character (b) flipbook pages (c) a rigged digital model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
  6. 6.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a comic book page (c) a printed photo (d) a looping GIF
  7. 7.🌀 A zoetrope has 8 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  8. 8.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a greeting card (b) a video game scene (c) a stop-motion film (d) a flipbook
  10. 10.Which of these is used in stop-motion? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a virtual 3D world (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) a digital 3D character
  11. 11.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses paper cut-outs shot? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
  12. 12.🎞️ 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) nothing at all (c) the bird in the cage (d) two birds
  13. 13.True or false: a spinning zoetrope shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: a framed painting shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🎞️ What is an animation made of? (a) only sound (b) one big painting (c) a single photo (d) many still pictures
  16. 16.True or false: a flipbook shows moving pictures. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses toys shot step by step? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
  18. 18.🌀 A zoetrope has 9 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  19. 19.🎞️ A spinning drum with pictures inside and slits to look through is … (a) a storyboard (b) a flipbook (c) a microphone (d) a zoetrope
  20. 20.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a hand-drawn cartoon (b) paper cut-outs shot (c) puppets moved bit by bit (d) a virtual 3D world
  21. 21.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses frames drawn on a tablet? (a) 3D computer animation (b) 2D drawn animation (c) stop-motion
  22. 22.True or false: a flipbook shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🌀 A zoetrope has 16 pictures round its drum and spins 2 times a second. How many pictures do you see in 2 seconds?
  24. 24.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) pencil drawings on paper (c) a computer-built model (d) puppets moved bit by bit
  25. 25.🌀 A zoetrope has 12 pictures round its drum and spins 1 time a second. How many pictures do you see each second?
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a flipbook (b) a cartoon film (c) a framed painting (d) a stop-motion film
  27. 27.True or false: a comic book page shows a still picture. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a road sign (b) a flipbook (c) a looping GIF (d) a video game scene
  29. 29.True or false: a framed painting shows moving pictures. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these is used in 2D drawn animation? (a) paper cut-outs shot (b) a clay model moved a bit (c) a computer-built model (d) frames drawn on a tablet
  31. 31.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses a clay model moved a bit? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
  32. 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a cartoon film (b) a printed photo (c) a comic book page (d) a greeting card
  33. 33.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses pencil drawings on paper? (a) stop-motion (b) 3D computer animation (c) 2D drawn animation
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a comic book page (b) a stop-motion film (c) a spinning zoetrope (d) a cartoon film
  35. 35.🎞️ Which kind of animation uses flipbook pages? (a) 2D drawn animation (b) stop-motion (c) 3D computer animation
  36. 36.Which of these is used in 3D computer animation? (a) a digital 3D character (b) toys shot step by step (c) pencil drawings on paper (d) puppets moved bit by bit
  37. 37.True or false: a cartoon film shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: a video game scene shows a still picture. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🎞️ Each single picture in an animation is called a … (a) frame (b) font (c) poster (d) pixel
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) a video game scene (b) a road sign (c) a printed photo (d) a greeting card

Answer key

  1. 3D computer animation
  2. 4
  3. 2D drawn animation
  4. 2
  5. puppets moved bit by bit
  6. a looping GIF
  7. 8
  8. True
  9. a greeting card
  10. paper cut-outs shot
  11. stop-motion
  12. the bird in the cage
  13. False
  14. True
  15. many still pictures
  16. True
  17. stop-motion
  18. 9
  19. a zoetrope
  20. a virtual 3D world
  21. 2D drawn animation
  22. False
  23. 64
  24. a computer-built model
  25. 12
  26. a framed painting
  27. True
  28. a road sign
  29. False
  30. frames drawn on a tablet
  31. stop-motion
  32. a cartoon film
  33. 2D drawn animation
  34. a comic book page
  35. 2D drawn animation
  36. a digital 3D character
  37. False
  38. False
  39. frame
  40. a video game scene

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